Jose Marti’s Scherezada Lozada was a finalist and winner of the Miami-Dade County PTA/PTSA Leader of Tomorrow/Student Involvement Award which recognizes students that have made an impact in their school and community.Lozada is a member of the Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy PTSA and their own student representative. Lozada, with her dedicated nature has carried out an annual uniform drive for the past three years that has brought great benefit...

On June 1, the non-profit Giving Gators awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Hialeah Miami Lakes High School (HML) senior Denisse Pino along with a new MacBook Pro, shopping store gift cards and more.Giving Gators founder Daylin Garcia said “Denisse is an extraordinary student with a compelling story. Although our organization worked hard to choose one student from various local schools, it was without a doubt that she would be the one.Garcia...

Bob Graham Education Center was well represented on May 21 when two talented groups of student musicians sang for the second year in a row in the Universal Studios STARS Performance Program. The Bobcat Singers sang under the direction of Alejandro Fuenmayor and the Glee Club was under the direction of Audrey Carballo. Both groups enjoyed huge audiences and had fun in the park after their performances. Both Fuenmayor and Carballo are extremely...

Professor Michael Walton is celebrating a 50 year milestone of teaching at Miami Dade College’s (MDC) North Campus. It is estimated he has taught and mentored more than 18,000 students, many of whom have had children who has took his classes.During his career Walton has been a professor through the evolution of information technology and the explosion of computer science in the business and higher education landscape.Walton enrolled at MDC in...

During the summer of 2018, senior Guadalupe Cabrera and junior Chika Ojukwu founded The Vanguard newspaper at Barbara Goleman Senior High (BGSH). This was the first time in eight years since BGSH allowed students to pursue their journalistic creativity.The first paper, The Gator Times, was cancelled in 2011 after, then teacher and newspaper sponsor, Robert Inza, took a new position at the school and no one wanted to succeed him.When asked how...