Bob Graham Education Center’s 7th Grade Bobcat Law Society won first place at the 2016 Project Citizen Fair at Florida International University’s School of Law. The group presented the Breanna Vergara EKG Initiative project, named after the 11-year-old Miami Lakes resident who died of a rare heart condition after she collapsed during dance practice in 2014. Her mother, Claudia  Vergara, said her daughter died from...

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School student softball standout Sofia Dominguez won the 2016 Female Athlete of the Year at the Premios Copa Dorada Golden Cup Awards luncheon on April 3. Premios Copa Dorada is a sports awards luncheon created to honor the top Hispanic athletes in Miami-Dade County, recognizing 70 athletic achievements of the best youth talent from the Hispanic community each year. Dominguez, a senior, has recorded a 3.38...

  Journalism students at Miami Lakes Educational Center recently won a Skype call with Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer-prize winning author and opinion columnist for the New York Times, through his email newsletter contest. Kristof was raised in Yamhill, Oregon; a place that he describes as “in the middle of nowhere.” Through this middle of nowhere, however, he found his calling: Journalism. “My journalism career began by...

  In a year highlighted by awards and accolades for its students and teacher, Pace High School’s Drama Club and Academy for Visual & Performing Arts Theatre Program theatre looks to end on a high note with its 2016 spring musical production of Chicago with a string of performances for middle school students and the open public on April 20, 21, and 22.  Over 500 middle school students from Our Lady of the Lakes, Immaculate...

  Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy will be recognized and receive a National Magnet School of Merit Distinction Award during an awards ceremony held at Magnet Schools of America’s 34th National Conference hosted by Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Miami in early May. To receive a national merit award, members of Magnet Schools of America must submit a detailed application that is scored by a panel of educators. These schools are...