It has been a little over ten years since Miami Lakes Middle School's Legal Department Head, Lisa DeYarza, first created the Legal Studies Magnet Program and led the founding class to first place in their first Project Citizen competition. Since then, DeYarza and her students have gone on to win multiple awards in various civic competitions including Project Citizen, Model United Nations, and District Mock Trial Competitions. Despite...

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s drama club recently performed In the Heights during a three-night performance schedule totaling over 1,300 audience members, breaking records for the most-attended performance. Part of the astonishing attendance was due to the cast which included a combination of students who live for theatre, and those whose talents stretch beyond various skill sets. This performance was especially emotional...

    Hialeah Gardens Senior High School has nominated eight students for the Silver Knight Scholarship awarded by The Miami Herald. Nominees from all schools with be interviewed by a panel of judges and the winning Silver Knight nominee will receive $2,000, a statue, and a medallion presented by American Airlines. Three honorable mentions are presented $500 and an engraved plaque.Hialeah Gardens’ nominees include Adrian Perez...

  Bob Graham Education Center students from Jennifer Batchelder and Maria Easterling’s third grade class participated in an outreach project, Blooming Buddies: Creating Sustainable Gardens in Our Community. The project was sponsored by the school’s PTSA Grant Program. Students, with the help of their families, planted an herb and vegetable garden at Hallandale Christian School.This project helped students develop an...

  Miami Lakes Educational Center's Krisna Maddy was recognized as one of 1,000 recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, a national scholarship organization funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  The scholarship covers unmet need and self-help aid for the cost of education, applicable to any college or university and is renewable maintaining the student meets satisfactory academic progress. The scholarship can also...