On March 18, students in the Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) Junior State of America (JSA) chapter participated in the national #FightApathy campaign. “It was a wonderful experience to see people our age interested in real world issues that affect us,” said student Marissa Echeverria, the vice president-elect for MLEC’s JSA chapter. Fight Apathy is a national campaign which ran from March 16 to 28. Schools across the...

  Daylin Garcia, a volunteer and member of the Bob Graham Education Center PTSA, was recently honored during a special luncheon at Jungle Island by Miami-Dade Public Schools for being an outstanding volunteer. She received the award from Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. “Daylin goes way beyond the call of duty to ascertain that school volunteers are lined up for events, helps out in the office and even maintains the Facebook...

  The Hialeah Miami Lakes High School’s band program has a lot to celebrate. Various students within the school’s band program have received accolades and opportunities to showcase their abilities.  Trojan band caption, Jesus Perez was selected for the University of Miami Frost School of Music Honor Band Festival. In mid February he received one-on-one mentorship from the world class musicians of the university faculty...

    About 70 students in grades five through eight from over 25 elementary and middle schools had hands-on experiences with science, technology, and engineering at Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s inaugural Spartan STEM Boot Camp on February 28.  Campers attended 1-hour workshops for engineering, coding, biology, and chemistry taught by different STEM Academy teachers from Pace. For the Engineering workshop in...

  A TV Production class at Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High (HML) wrapped up a session with the Florida Film Institute’s (FFI) CINEMA program. About thirty students took part in the program that culminated in the shooting of their short film “Curiosity at Best” on March 14.   The students were guided by professionals from the film industry throughout the production of this film from the development of the script to...