Ana H. Knapp, district outreach liaison for the North Region of Miami-Dade County Project UP-START, receives Publix gift cards from Denis Brenes, vice president of the Giving Gators charity.      The Giving Gators Thanksgiving drive raised $2,500 to feed students in Miami-Dade County public and charter schools who are in unstable housing.       Project UP-START distributed the gift cards to...

Miami Lakes K-8 music teacher Elizabeth Urquiola, left, and 8th grader Sabella Scavuzzo are shown on campus. For the second year in a row, Sabella, 13, will perform the violin with the 2023 Florida All-State Middle School Orchestra on Jan. 14 in Tampa. Her sister Sabrina Scavuzzo, 16, a MLK-8 graduate who attends American Heritage High School, will play double bass with the All State Orchestra. It is her third performance with the...

The Honors Law Society club at Barbara Goleman Senior High School sponsored a Law Career Fair for students on Dec. 1 in the gym. The organizers invited attorneys, members of law enforcement including police and K-9s. One of the goals was to provide students with access to information from different legal fields, law schools, the Fire Service and police departments, including a canine unit, student Angie Mesa said.      Shown...

Miami Lakes Educational Center students have an alternative to dissecting a formaldehyde-scented frog or other animal in biology class.      Those in the Academy of Health Science are using virtual dissection technology to study the human body.       The public magnet school at 5780 NW 158th St. offers technical education courses in six academies for students in grades 9-to-12.    ...

     Members of the Barbara Goleman Senior High School National Honor Society collected travel-size toiletries in November for 200 care packages, on behalf of children whose housing is unstable. The non-profit organization Giving Gators will distribute the packages to students participating in Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Project UP-START.       Shown in the photo from left are...