It’s an accomplishment to make it to 12th grade, and Barbara Goleman Senior High School students who get there take the opportunity to stand out. Gators – both boys and girls --  create crowns to emphasize their status among the student body. Although these seniors won’t get to wear their royal coronets while strutting the halls of their school in Miami Lakes, they kept up the tradition and posted photos on social media. Shown above, left to...

Eddie the Spartan, the mascot for Monsignor Edward Pace High School in Miami Gardens, welcomed students Aug. 17 during a car parade that was part of orientation for the new students. Orientation days in previous years would include campus tours and visits to classrooms, but those traditions couldn’t happen during the coronavirus pandemic. Students began attending classes online on Aug. 19.  Shown above is Eddie the Spartan and student Matthew...

Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School welcomed their youngest Cheetahs, PreKindergarten students ages 2, 3 and 4, on Aug. 19.  Faculty and staff cheered arriving students and Father Luis Flores, Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of the Lakes Church, greeted them as they arrived. Students enrolled in Kindergarten through eighth grade began their classes online that day. The Archdiocese of Miami offered parents of PreK students a choice for their...

Three seniors at Barbara Goleman Senior High School in Miami Lakes received National AP Scholar Awards for achieving an average score of 4 or higher on eight or more AP exams during three years, the school said.  Photos, top to bottom, of Joseph A. Mooney, Kaitlyn T. Ruano and Natalie M. Triana, courtesy of the school.

Brandon Diaz, 23, of  Tavernier, graduated Aug. 2 from Florida International University.     Diaz, a marketing and digital services specialist for the Town of Miami Lakes, earned a Master of Science degree in Marketing.      Diaz said he also obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from FIU, as well as certificates in marketing research and analysis and social media and e-marketing, all in 2019.     Diaz grew up in...