Pace High School’s Academy of Visual & Performing Arts - Theatre Program continued nine straight years of success at the 2016 Florida State Thespian Festival in Orlando from March 16 to March 19 with the program’s first ever Critics Choice (Best in State) award. Senior Leslie Castiblano made school history with her Critics Choice award in Costume Design for her designs for the play The Elephant Man. Castiblanco became...

 

Mater Academy senior Jairo Gomez with his art work exhibited at the "Dreams and Illumination" exhibition at Miami International Airport before boarding his flight to Spain for spring break. Other Mater senior students in the exhibition include Melissa Fernandez and Michael Erazo.

  Flavia Cuervo, a former Miami Lakes Educational Center student and current Marketing/Public Relations director at Harvard University’s Model UN, has continued to impress her alma mater with her personal and professional accomplishments. This fall Cuervo gained clearance to the Vatican to be part of a select delegation that would hear the Pope speak. During her time there, she was able to snap a selfie with him. Former classmates...

  The cafeteria at American High was transformed after lunch into the 10th annual Art Club “Coffeehouse,” an exposition of the American High students’ talents in the musical, visual and culinary arts. Coffeehouse has become an annual tradition at American High but it’s always a new event because, while the format has become well-known, the actual staging and performers are always a surprise.  Immediately...

  In 2014, Miami Lakes adopted a town-wide Beautification Master Plan to serve as a vision and provide guidance as to what and how the physical environment within the Town should appear. The master plan addresses issues including median planting improvements, pocket-neighborhood park beautification, gateway entry features, crosswalk beautification, and other right-of-way improvements typical of most streetscape beautification projects....