Three juniors from Monsignor Edward Pace High School won Aspirations in Computing Awards. The National Center for Women & Information Technology works to increase the participation of girls and women in computing. Pace students Diana Porras and Gabriela Cespedes won the organization’s 2021 South Florida Affiliate Award. Exmiralda Bazile won the Rising Star, 2021 South Florida Affiliate Award. The juniors are part of Pace’s...

Loubensky Baine, 19, has won a Patti Grace Smith fellowship which gives him a $2,000 award and an internship with an aerospace firm. Baine graduated from Miami Lakes Educational Center and is a sophomore at the University of Central Florida. He is studying aerospace engineering and is one of 43 Black aerospace majors in the country to win the fellowship, the university said. “I am honored that the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship...

Gina Rose Montalto was a 14-year-old girl, one of 17 students and staff who were killed in 2018 during a shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Gina Rose’s death inspired her parents Jennifer and Anthony Montalto to become activists for safe schools. They also created the Gina Rose Montalto Memorial Foundation in honor of their daughter. The foundation is offering several scholarships, including...

The Hialeah chapter of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs saw how the COVID-19 pandemic and remote learning negatively affected families and students working from home and took steps to fix the problem. Members of the club donated $10,000 in February to the Miami Lakes K-8 Center. The money is to purchase 25 laptops and a cart for use in the school, at 14250 NW 67th Ave. The new computers will replace devices that were...

Barbara Goleman Senior High School’s trial team finished second in the Miami Dade County Public Schools Virtual Senior High School Mock Trial competition. Students learning in school and at home would gather on campus after hours to practice in the media center at the school, at 4100 NW 89th Ave. in Miami Lakes, Law Studies teacher Ana M. Soto-Gonzalez said. The announcement was made March 10th.
Seated at the left table, left to right...