Mercedes F. Ferreira-Dias is a senior at Mater Lakes Academy (MLA). Not only is she the school’s Valedictorian, but she will also be attending Harvard University. In addition to all her prestigious accomplishments, on May 8 she was endowed with the honor of being selected into the Presidential Scholars program.This program has recognized her as a high school senior from Miami-Dade County as the 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts out...

Mater Lakes Academy (MLA) is proud to have junior Sophia Torres representing their school as the Community Service Chair for MDCPS Student Government. MLA has an active participation with the SGA of MDCPS. Torres made it her goal to be on the board since she began in SGA. So as a current member of MLA’s SGA, she has the experience needed to be a representative on behalf of MLA.Torres had to go through an application process by submitting a...

Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School (OLL) is proud of its S.T.R.E.A.M. program that is focused on the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Religion and the Arts for their students. On April 4, the school invited families to participate in hands on STREAM activities that included robotics, green screen technology, collaboration, circuits and building.

Monsignor Edward Pace High School (PACE) continued an established tradition with its second annual alumni party on May 4. The theme of this year’s event was Cinco de Mayo and once again the school welcomed five decades of PACE graduates to the festive Spartan Alumni Fiesta.Two hundred guests gathered in the school’s Spartan Center for an evening of food, cocktails and dancing. The party brought together alumni from 1954 to 2018 and they all...

What is college really like? The best way to answer that question is to go visit a college campus, to walk through the hallways and classrooms, to talk to current students and faculty. But, travel is expensive and whose parents can take the time off from work to traverse the country?Yordanka Mezawi, Miami Lakes Educational Center’s (MLEC) teacher of the year, started the process of organizing a school trip at the end of last school year....