Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) students from Mater Academy recently won two Gold Medals, four Silver Medals and one Bronze Medal during the 2016 FCCLA National Leadership Conference and Competition in San Diego, California.Adrian Cruz and Alejandro Landivar won Gold Medals for Sports Nutrition, and Silver Medals were awarded to Rodolfo Hernandez, Danett Garcia and Dyana Padron for Focus on Children and Jonathan Alicea...

When the students and faculty of Pace High School return from their long summer break, they will face new experiences in everyday school life with new classes, new students and new lunch schedules. The Pace community will also be welcomed with renovations to the Pace Plaza, a well known and beloved hangout for students. “After six long years awaiting and developing this project, it brings me great joy to say it is finally...

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ annual Synergy Summer Institute program was held at Miami Jackson Senior High School during the last weeks of July for all schools in Dade County. Synergy is an academic support program that strives to strengthen MDCPS through resources for school administration and faculty like tailored workshops focused on 21st century learning. “Digital Fluency” is encouraged as a skill for students...

Long before Sabrina Gonzalez won The Miami Herald’s 2016 Sliver Knight in the Vocational Technical category for Miami-Dade in May, the former Mater Lakes Academy student was part of the school’s Early Childhood Education program where she grew fond of a special student.Adrian was stricken with autism and a student of Cub Academy, an on-site pre-school for what is part of the early childhood curriculum, when Gonzalez met him and...

Miami Lakes Educational Center’s administration is implementing new school shirts with hopes to unite all the academies at MLEC. The shirts were designed by WunderThought, a company created by Cambridge and Health Seniors, Sebastian Salas and Erick Rivera. The shirts will be predominantly black with white patches and will have the school’s logo as a patch on the left chest. The school’s logo was designed by Digital Arts...