The Miami Lakes Optimist Club recently concluded its Fall 2015 Flag Football season. Over 200 children participated in the league this season, receiving trophies at the league's closing ceremony event on Saturday, December 12, at Royal Oaks Park. Congratulations to the 5-7 division champion Panthers (above left), 8-10 division champion Lions (above right), and 11-13 division champion Seahawks. The season was made possible in part by...

Fourteen students from Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s STEM Academy Emerging Computer Technologies Program got to see the pinnacle of technology in South Florida when they visited Verizon Terremark’s NAP of the Americas data center and Internet exchange point in downtown Miami on November 17. The NAP (Network Access Point) functions essentially as the heart of the Internet for Latin America as it connects South America and the...

  As proposed by Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman, the Miami-Dade School Board unanimously voted to endorse the 2016 Teen Driver Safety Contest, in collaboration with the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Public Schools Community Traffic Safety Team and the Florida Highway Patrol. The contest, now in its eighth year, is made up of the annual Teen Driver Safety Public Service Announcement (PSA) and Poster Contest that...

  Judy Marty is the catalyst for her school’s rise to success. As the principal of Mater Academy Charter Middle/High and Performing Arts Academy, she has taken her school to new heights, from a little known facility in Hialeah to a National Blue Ribbon Award winner and invitations to showcase her students’ talents during statewide competitions.   And an independent research institute and government watchdog organization...

 

Bob Graham Education Center seventh grade student Amanda Milian won first place in the Junior Division for her poem titled, ‘What If.’  Her award-winning poem was also published in the Florida State Poets Association Book. Amanda is a student in Jackie Hernandez’s Language Arts Class and the Bobcat family expressed pride of her for her achievement.