Florida International University’s swimming and diving team has been recognized by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) for student-athletes’ stellar performance in the classrooms. Combined, the two teams sport a 3.58 GPA and have been named to the Scholar All-America team announced by the league last week.“The ladies killed it in the classroom this year. They continue to raise the bar and exceed it, I could not be more...

Hialeah Miami Lakes High student-athlete Damian Ortega was selected to take part in the inaugural Geico High School Baseball Series in Chicago where he competed with the team from Miami.The tournament was played July 8-11 at Curtis Granderson Stadium at the University of Illinois-Chicago.Ortega’s team lost to New York in a pool play to determine the competitors for the championship game.The contest featured four teams that played a total of...

A student team from Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy (JMMAST) led by teacher Erica Henderson recently participated in a project to develop an advanced spectrometer processor chip with Dr. Adrian Tang of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.The development project, which is supported under NASA’s 2018-2021 Astrophysics Research and Analysis Program (APRA), seeks to develop an advanced spectrometer chip for space...

Valeria Bula graduated summa cum laude from Miami Lakes Educational Center’s Cambridge Journalism Program. She was accepted to many highly competitive universities, including Princeton, Georgetown and Emory. Bula chose to enroll at Yale University where she is a rising freshman. She was also accepted to their Emerging Leaders Summer Seminar. While there, she is beginning her coursework, but also participating in conferences and seminars. Bula...

Four students from Spanish Lake Elementary (SLE) will have their artwork on display at the Miami International Airport for the art show, “From Rags to Riches-Fibers and Fabrics and Textiles, Oh My!” It will be on display through October 10. The students whose work will be on display are Maksim Almanza, Jocelyn Fonte, Samantha Gaina and Autumn Rosasza. SLE and art teacher Donna Harvey are very proud. Fonte is pictured with her art show entry.