By Jaylyn Gonzalez After a ten-week-long break, incoming and returning Jaguars will soon be walking into the hallways of MLEC with the curiosity of what to expect in the new school year. Numerous extracurricular activities, clubs, and events await all students as they occur all throughout the school year. Spirit week, class trips, homecoming, and…
By Michelle Mairena @miixchii Miami Lakes Educational Center enjoyed an exceptional school year. It was named the nation’s best Magnet School, earned a STEM designation, its students won various individual accolades, and many of its extra-curricular clubs won national awards. Jaguars simply went above and beyond expectations this past academic year. So when Florida school…
By Aileen Delgado & Samantha Jimenez “It’s hard to say something to a legend… if you are a student and you had Joe Walpole, then with the things he taught you, you will be able to survive. There won’t be [anything] anybody can throw at you that you can’t handle because of what he taught…
By Michelle Mairena June 5th, 2019. For the class of 2019, this date did not only mark the end of their journey at MLEC, the end of their high school careers, and a goodbye to familiar faces, loved teachers, and past memories. It also marked the beginning of a new phase in their lives—a transition…
By Aileen Delgado For many, high school can be defined as the perpetual routine of ongoing distress, remorseless gossip, and confined classrooms that fill the hallways they can’t seem to escape from. However, within those halls is a grand fateless journey encapsulated into the short-lived time frame of four years—a journey determined by every passenger….
By Sabine Joseph For the fourth year in a row, Miami Lakes Educational Center’s journalism students have won honors in C-SPAN’s annual StudentCam competition, an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think critically about issues that affect our communities and the nation. “C-SPAN started this competition 15 years ago, for smart students…
By Daniel Gonzalez III Miami Lakes Educational Center is the best magnet school in the country, according to the Magnet Schools of America (MSA). Of the nearly 4,400 magnet schools across the country, MLEC received the top award at the annual National MSA Conference. “Winning the prestigious Magnet Schools of America award is another example…
By Karla Perez Around September of last year, Ms. Mezawi announced an upcoming EF Explore America field trip that would take place in March at our school. Although it would be expensive, many students were ecstatic to participate and did not hesitate to ask their parents to pour their all—time, energy, and especially money—into it…
By Samantha Jimenez One of the longest running and most highly acclaimed live theaters in South Florida, GableStage, brought Hamlet to life on Wednesday, March 6th, at Miami Lakes Educational Center. The play is one of Shakespeare’s most loved and well-known tragedies. But this production was—different. The GableStage adaptation, titled AKA Hamlet, brought the 400-year-old…
By Jaylyn Gonzalez After an entire week of campaigning with dozens of posters, candies, and social media posts, a diverse range of forty brave students captured the crowd’s attention when walking on the stage to show why they deserve to uphold the positions for either their class or the Student Government Association (SGA). The role…