Miami Lakes K-8 Center Kindergarten teachers Tania Martinez and Yanelys Canales celebrated the first 100 days of school with students making T-shirts at home and bringing them back to class with 100 different items on it. Pictured is Canales’ class with “Miami Lakes K8 100 days Canales Class” T-shirts; and Martinez poses with her kindergarten class.  

  Just before the President’s Day weekend, members of Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s (Pace) Class of 2018, participated in a highly anticipated annual tradition, the senior class trip to Canada. After months of planning and coordinating just the right winter attire, 54 seniors and seven  chaperones made up of faculty and administrators, boarded a plane to Canada. For many, it was their very first time traveling out...

  Gabriella Mestre is a junior at Barbara Goleman Senior High School (BGSHS) who is raising money for homeless awareness in her community. To combat these issues, she started an initiative in her school called Teens Against Homelessness (TAH).  Mestre emphasizes the problem of homelessness across communities in South Florida, and believes that the problem could easily be eradicated if people come together to help one another. ...

  Bob Graham Education Center’s (BGEC) Civic Engagement Academy (CEA) won first place in Miami-Dade County Public School’s “We the People” District Competition on January 11. The team continued to the State’s “We the People” Competition in Orlando on February 2 where they won first place for the fourth consecutive year. CEA teachers Jackeline Hernandez and John Brady worked relentlessly...

  The Miami Lakes Optimist Club recently announced the two winners for the 32nd annual Roland Gomez Scholarship award during a ceremony at Miami Lakes Middle School. For the girls, Erika Castroman, who plays softball and attends American High School, won the top prize, $1,000 for college expenses and a gold medal. Emilyrose Morejon, a student at Mater Academy who  plays basketball was the runner-up with a silver medal, and Alyssa...