Pace High School’s Academy of Visual & Performing Arts Theatre Program and Drama Club finished out another excellent award-winning year with its spring musical production of Chicago on April 20 through 22. In addition to their regular evening shows, Pace Drama students held special morning performances of Chicago on April 20 and 21 for over 500 middle school students from Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School, St. John the...

Every February, senior athletes get excited for one reason – they are finally eligible to sign their Letter of Intent to their desired college or university.An athletic signing celebrates all the hard work that the student-athlete has demonstrated throughout the years.Likewise, Mater Academy hosted its very first Academic Signing in school history on April 19 to celebrate the accomplishments of the school’s top senior...

Bob Graham Education Center eighth-grade student Nicolle Alvarez won first place in the sixth to eighth grade category of the American Chemical Society Poem competition with the theme “Indoor Ecosystem.Her poem will be representing Bob Graham Education Center and Miami-Dade County Public Schools at the national level American Chemical Society Competition.“We are so proud of Nicolle for this prestigious recognition,” school...

The Superintendent's Honors Orchestra is a part of the Miami-Dade County Honors Music Festival that students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools audition to be a part of at either the elementary or secondary level in orchestra, band, and choir.  Miami Lakes K-8 Center students Ariana Rejas and Francis Dalipe, both eighth graders, auditioned for the first time and were selected to perform as part of an elite group of string players....

Pace High School senior Gabriela Gutierrez Perez may be most well-known among her peers for playing the violin, as she has in several on-stage performances and Open Mic Nights. However, it is her prowess with the harp that has led to her being accepted to three prestigious undergraduate institutes –the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Miami, and the University of Michigan. All institutions have...