Monsignor Edward Pace High School senior Steven Yildirim has kept himself busy and his college options open the past few months by attending conferences at MIT, Cornell University, and now John Hopkins University. Over the summer, Yildirim was accepted into the MIT Online Science Technology Engineering Community, or MOSTEC. He took a four-week online neuro-science course with an MIT professor and traveled to Cambridge to attend the...

 

Miami Lakes Councilmember Tim Daubert and his daughter, Ashley, a junior at Monsignor Pace High School, is pictured with U.S. Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart at the Service Academy Day on September 20 at U.S. Southern Command. The event provided those applying to a service academy an overview of the United States service academies and their admission process.

  Perla Tabares Hantman, a longtime resident of the Town of Miami Lakes, was recently elected with an outstanding 81 percent of the vote to her sixth term as a member of the Miami-Dade County School Board where she represents District 4, and is currently serving as its chair for the seventh time. Throughout her many years of public service on the School Board, Hantman has worked hard in improving the District’s level of academic...

The Capstone program at Barbara Goleman Senior High School has received such positive results it was named a flagship school by College Board last year. Now as the first founding class of Capstone students begin their senior year, 21 students are already a year advanced having completed the three year program in two at the close of junior year. The students, aptly named AP (advanced placement) Scholars, received this distinction for their...

  Barbara Goleman seniors Kevhani Hicks and Meiby Rivero spent their summers working as interns, but their five weeks soon proved to be worth more than just the valuable experience when they received surprise grants from JPMorgan Chase. The financial organization funded a $100,000 grant for the internship program managed by Miami-Dade County Public Schools open to students participating in the National Academy Foundation (NAF). NAF...