Five Miami Dade College (MDC) students and aspiring artists have been honored with the 2019 Frances Wolfson Art Scholarship to support the costs of tuition, books, fees and art supplies.The 2019 scholarship winners are MDC students Andrea Araica, Anthony Campos, Quentin Gibson-Mays and Jacquelyn Molina, and New World School of the Arts student Angelica Brito. They will each receive $1,500 to support their studies next academic year. Their...

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...