Journalism students in Miami Lakes Educational Center’s Cambridge Academy participated in the recent 42nd annual Florida Scholastic Press Association’s Journalism Day at Florida International University’s South Campus.
All journalism and TV production students from Miami-Dade County are invited to attend lectures and workshop facilitated by professional journalists, broadcasters, producers, photographers and university professors.
MLEC students came in first place in two separate competitions. Nathalie Mairena won first place for an On the Spot Creative Writing competition, and the journalism staff, including layout designer Vivian Bermudez and Amanda Delgado, won first place for overall Newspaper layouts.
In other MLEC news, Stephanie Brito, a junior in the Cambridge Academy’s journalism strand, was hired as the newest, and youngest, intern at The Miami Herald. She is working with the Neighbors section twice a week at the Herald’s Doral office.
Recent MLEC journalism graduate Flavia Cuervo is working at the Harvard Political Review, an undergraduate journal of politics and public policy. Every fall and spring, the Harvard Public Opinion Project releases America’s largest poll of young people with a focus on millennials’ views and attitudes on everything from ISIS to their views of Congress. Cuervo co-wrote one of the articles in this year’s study which was released on October 29.