Barbara Goleman Senior High School Senior Christopher Prophete, 17, of Miami, in the first photo, participated in a summer Seminar for Top Engineering Prospects, or STEP program at Purdue University. Students learned core engineering skills, including physics, programming, 3D modeling and robotics; team-based challenges to tackle real-world problems, which ended with a design competition; learned from current staff and students and toured an engineering company, according to the program website.
In the second photo is Barbara Goleman Senior High School senior Gabriel Diaz, 17, who attended three pre-college programs this year. During six months of virtual courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its MITES program, he used data-driven maps to study how minority communities are facing environmental dangers in Miami-Dade County. At the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Gabriel completed “The Environment: Science, Policy, Ethics” leadership seminar. He also spent attended the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Youth Leadership Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles which helps high-achieving students gain admission to top universities and succeed, the school said.
Four Barbara Goleman Senior High School students spent a week in Tallahassee as part of the Florida American Legion’s Boy’s State summer program. Wilson Olivo, 17 and Aidan Schwinghammer, 17, from Miami Lakes and Elias-Ivan Hernandez, 16 and Brian Rodriguez, 16, from Hialeah participated in the course that is non-partisan. It gives students hands on experience in political practices: they represent a fictional nation, city or state, learning about the duties and functions of their roles. They also sponsor and argue for their proposed legislation, according to the Florida Legion.