On Wednesday, October 7, Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy’s Athletic Program will be hosting a fundraising event at Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza and Ben & Jerry’s located within the Royal Oaks Plaza in Miami Lakes.   The MAST PTSA is raising money for the athletic rogram to purchase new uniforms and equipment. The athletic program was ranked 28th overall in Miami-Dade County last school year and is...

  Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart mailed congratulatory letters to Miami Lakes Educational Center students Nathalie Mirena (left, front) and Stephanie Brito (right) congratulating them on their recent accolades. Brito was honored as the Top Female Student at M.I.T. this past summer and Mirena was awarded Best New Video and Best News Coverage at the University of Miami’s journalism program. She is now entered in the Dow Jones...

  When Eric Acosta, principal of Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High School (HML), told his faculty he wanted to introduce new programs to the school, entrepreneurship teacher Ted Dinicola jumped on the opportunity.Dinicola, a sales professional who spent 22 years in the business world, has been teaching entrepreneurship classes at HML for 10 years. The expansion of entrepreneurship classes into a magnet would mean a planned trajectory for...

  Following in a decades-long tradition, freshmen and seniors from Monsignor Edward Pace High School participated in the school’s annual Freshmen Welcome Week. Festivities opened on September 14 with a quick meet-and-greet between seniors and their freshmen, followed by the Salt & Light School Mass. In a moving opening lit mostly by candles, seniors and freshmen placed offerings in front of the altar representing the seven...

  With Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Drama program marking its fifteenth production under the guidance of Cristina Pla-Guzman, lead teacher for the Academy for Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre Program, just what separates this production from its past ones?It’s not simply the heinous story of the dead coming back to life in pursuit of human brains that should entice you to watch the show; it’s the themes that...