Jonathan Tagoe, a senior in the Engineering Strand of the Cambridge Academy at Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC), was one of 70 students selected from across the country and Puerto Rico to participate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MITES Program, the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES).  MITES is a rigorous six-week residential academic enrichment program for promising high school seniors who...

In one week, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) will be welcoming more than 342,000 students back to school. The Food and Nutrition Department has been working diligently planning healthy, nutritious menus for the school year ahead. The department’s Test Kitchen is a bustling sight as cooks prepare a wide selection of meals being offered this school year, including student favorites such as spaghetti and baked chicken wings,...

The dictionary says that the meaning of change is to: “Take the form, nature, content and future course to something different than what is or what it would be if left alone.”To deviate and take a person from the direction in which they were accustomed of going, changing an old habit by replacing it with a new habit under new conditions. Elevating to a higher level in the light of success giving Glory to God.This new 2016/2017...

The Keyes Company, based in Miami, and Illustrated Properties, based in Palm Beach County, two of Florida’s longest running family-owned real estate businesses, have merged to form the largest independently-owned real estate firm in Florida, and a Top 25-ranked firm in the entire United States.Keyes CEO Mike Pappas and Illustrated chairman Francis Fiske “Bud” Adams Jr. announced the merger to employees and agents on July...

The brainchild of a retired police officer turned Guardian Ad Litem and a businessman resulted in the creation of Guardian Watch, Inc. a 501c(3). Guardian Watch was formed in 2013 by business teacher and entrepreneur, Paul Marino, where it began providing educational enrichment, mentoring, tutoring, meals, character development and even transportation to foster and at-risk students in the Northwest Miami-Dade area. The program focuses on...