Three local high school basketball teams were successful in capturing their respective District championships this past week.Mater Academy boys’ basketball team captured the 16-8A District championship with a victory over Barbara Goleman, putting the Bears in the Regional quarterfinal. As the district’s runner-up, the Gators will play in the Regional quarterfinal. American High boys’ basketball team defeated Miami High...

The Miami Lakes Heat fast pitch softball team recently competed at Fletcher Park for a USSA Tournament. The girls went 2-1 to put them into a single elimination match against power house teams Plantataion Pressure and Sunrise Thunder. They defeated Pressure 4-1 and Thunder 9-1. The girls went into the finals versus Cooper City Cobras, losing 2-1. Pictured (back, from left) Andiana Bueno, coach Alex Castroman, Ashley Alfonso, Ashley Alonso,...

While working to become the next Ernest Hemingway and write the next Great American novel, Joseph Walpole saw a sign – literally. He saw an advertisement on a bulletin board looking for teachers, and so he called the phone number. If you had asked him years ago, he would not have guessed that he’d land at Miami Lakes Educational Center as an English/AICE teacher. Despite this, he is officially the school’s Teacher of...

The Bob Graham Education Center Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Academy competed on January 28 at the RoboSlam VEX IQ competition at the Miami Youth Fair Grounds. The teams’ ‘Savage Robots’ finished in 5th place in the team competition out of the 54 teams competing. The team was led by teacher Marilyn Dieppa.The team qualified to compete in the VEX IQ state competition for their STEM research project which...

In late January, Miami Lakes K-8 Center students took part in the 11th Kids Run Miami sponsored by the Miami marathon. Students who participated accumulated 25 miles during their physical education classes. They ran the last 1.2 miles of the marathon. Along with the teachers, students, and parents, there were three special participants: Principal Carlos Salcedo, who ran 13.1 miles (half-marathon), Physical Education teacher Alexis Garcia, who...