Three sixth graders from Miami Lakes K-8 Center placed third in the Sixth Annual Innov@te-CTEC Coding
Competition, held Dec. 7 at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson campus. Anthony Gonzalez, Daniel Jorge and Christopher Diaz are shown left to right above with their teacher Ana Vo. The students competed against eight other middle schools. Photo courtesy of the school, which is at 14250 NW 67th Ave.
At the Florida Gulf Coast University 16th Annual
Invitational Mathematics Competition on Dec. 16, two high school students from Mater Lakes Academy placed 15th against a field of 40 schools. There were 150 competitors in each category. Ninth grader Brigitte Torres placed 15th in Algebra 1, and 10th grader Helen Ho also placed 15th, in Geometry, the school said. Pictured above, left to right, are teacher Kimanh Nguyen; Helen Ho; teacher Renald Paul; Brigitte Torres and teacher Melvis Cabrera. Photo courtesy of the school, which is at 17300 NW 87th Ave. in Miami.