By Aileen Delgado At only four years old, a young Yaset Fernandez stepped onto American soil along with his parents and thousands of other Cuban immigrants. He was wide-eyed, confused, and afraid. All he knew was that he was leaving his home for an unknown, faraway place. But after traveling for hours, Fernandez and his…
By Khimmoy Hudson For the past few years, the Harbinger staff had the privilege to welcome NBC 6 reporter Darryl Forges into the PinkRoom. In those years, the journalism students interviewed, visited the NBC 6 news station, and even had Forges featured as a judge for our very own senior capstones. However, as Forges continues…
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: 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 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…