Lawton Chiles Middle School (LCMS) has a new band director, Harold Hankerson, who has helped the program really take off. A tremendous outpouring of support from parents and help from EESAC funding has made it possible to make much needed repairs to damaged instruments and purchase new uniforms for the students in preparation for their music performance assessment this spring.Band students have embraced the challenge of getting ready for...

Mater Academy High is honoring alumnus Emily Acosta, who was killed last week in a car accident near her school in Southwest Florida, by creating a scholarship in name.Mater Academy will host an alumni basketball game to collect funds to set up the scholarship, which is scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday, April 11 at the the school’s gymnasium, 7700 N.W. 98 Street in Hialeah Gardens.Acosta, a student at Ave Maria University in Naples was killed...

Bob Graham Education Center’s seventh grade Robocat STEM Academy competed for the first time at the Future City competition at Florida International University (FIU) Engineering Campus in mid-January. David Coira, Michelle Mendez, Mathew Walker and Mengqi Wu represented the STEM Academy with their model. The students earned the Special Award for the Best Integration of Cultural and Historical Resources in a Future City. The students also won...

The Bobcat dance competition team of Bob Graham Education Center and their coach Mayri Martinez participated in the State Competition that took place at Charles F. Dodge City Center. It was held on January 27 and it was hosted by The American Dance Alliance. This is the second competition of the season and the Bobcats competed in several categories against several magnet schools. The team received three third place awards for Jazz, Lyrical...

One of the longest running and most highly acclaimed live theaters in South Florida, GableStage, brought Hamlet to life on March 6 at Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC). The play is one of Shakespeare’s most loved and well known tragedies. But this production was different. The GablesStage adaptation, titled “AKA Hamlet,: brought the 400 year old play into the 21 century.The original Hamlet is about a man that seeks revenge after his...