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 Khimmoy Hudson In a time where citizens constantly hold stubborn to their own opinions and bias it is often hard for us to come together, but very seldom do we set those views aside to indulge in the light-hearted occasions—the joy of entertainment. Located at Barbara Goleman High in the school’s gymnasium the Town…
SPOILER WARNING By Carla Rubio With arguably the largest cinematic universe, the Marvel franchise is made up of iconic comic books, numerous television series and, as of April 26th, twenty two films. Over the course of eleven years, each and every Marvel movie has been meticulously thought out, to even the smallest of details, in…
By: Tyler Banks, Roxana Casanueva, and Abigail Rosales Food is the way to a man’s heart. The kitchen is the heart of a home. Meals are a time of celebration: birthdays, holidays, sometimes simply the small victory of making it through math class. At MLEC, there is one place that makes lunch time extra special:…
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 Tyler Banks In many ways, basketball is poetry in motion: a complex choreography – acrobats weaving around each other, sometimes gliding through the air, as the percussion sound of a basketball keeps the tempo. This summer, Dwyane Wade announced that he was coming home. “I feel like it’s right to ask you guys to…
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 Tyler Banks These are polarizing times and, although there is plenty of anger and outrage to go around, few issues cause as much frustration as public education: especially standardized testing.The latest iteration of this, the Common Core, is reviled on both sides of the aisle. The Common Core is a set of guidelines that…
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 Abigail Castro As May 1, College Decision Day, approaches, thousands of students across the nation routinely check their mailboxes awaiting acceptance letters from their dream college or university. Each of those students has worked tirelessly perfecting their essays, raising their GPA, participating in extracurricular activities—or so it was thought. Last Tuesday federal authorities charged…