Miami Lakes children, as well as students from area schools, are invited to participate in the 2nd Annual Main Street Banner Art Contest where up to 26 winners’ artwork will be showcased down Main Street on the light pole banners. This year's theme is: “My Home, My Community.” Artworks can show, but are not limited to, any of the following attributes that connect with Miami Lakes: Culture + Heritage, Parks + Nature,...

 

Miami-Dade School Board chair Perla Tabares Hantman hosted a Teen Driver Event at Hialeah Gardens Senior High on October 21 to bring awareness of the dangers of distracted driving, including texting while driving. She is pictured with a group of students who participated in the event and with school principal Dr. Louis Algaze.

  Students from Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Academy for Emerging Computer Technologies listened and chatted with Olina Helga Sverrisdottir, a 13-year-old coder from Iceland, in the new Innovation Center at Pace High School. Sverrisdottir is a 2013 Runner-Up for the Digital Girl of the Year European award and is an assistant Instructor & Designer at Skema Education. She also won competitions held by the FBI and Carnegie...

  Miami Lakes K-8 Center's Ollie Owl Booster Club will be hosting its annual Fundraising Garage Sale on Saturday, November 15, from 8 a.m. to noon. Monies raised from the day's sales go to help the different school clubs, fund community endeavors, activities, field trips, and any needed supplies. School clubs that will be participating include varsity and JV cheerleaders, the Salsa Club, Future Educators of America, the basketball team,...

  Robert Inza has come full circle at Barbara Goleman Senior High School. He is a member of the first graduating class, a former English teacher and Activities Director and newly appointed assistant principal, the first Goleman alumnus to be named an administrator. From the time he was a child, Inza was an engaged and motivated student. He recalls being eager to go to sleep so  the next day school would come sooner....