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...

Hialeah Gardens High School senior Caridad Cruz was among a group of students who Bank of America selected to take part in its 2016 Student Leaders Program.The eight-week program connects high school juniors and seniors based on their academic achievement and community service to employment, skills development and service. They are also awarded paid summer internships with local nonprofits such as Habitat for Humanity and Boys and Girls...

As proposed by chair Perla Tabares Hantman, the Miami-Dade School Board unanimously voted to endorse the 2016 “Welcome Back to School” Safety Flyer for distribution during the first week of school. Also endorsed were International “Walk to School Day” and the 5-E School Assessment Tool developed by the University of Miami’s Walksafe and Bikesafe programs.“For the past several years the Community Traffic...

The Beacon Council, through JPMorgan Chase, recently contributed $30,000 to Miami-Dade College’s Idea Center to be used to create Webdev, a new course that allows participants to learn from the ground up on how to build responsive websites in eight weeks.The new class was launched on July 19.“By the year 2020, more than 60 percent of managerial positions will require coding as a skill,” said Idea Center’s executive...