By Michelle Mairena Elisandra Fernandez first heard of the “gifted kid” label one morning in her first-grade class, when a teacher told her she was a good test-taker and belonged in the gifted student program — a program to academically accelerate high-achieving and fast-developing students. Fernandez didn’t understand what being ‘gifted’ meant, but when she…
By Valeria Bula Miami Lakes Educational Center is home to students who are amongst the most exceptional, hardworking, and talented individuals nationwide. Every year, Jaguars leave the familiar teal walls of MLEC to pursue their dreams all around the world. The sky’s the limit when it comes to MLEC’s students, as many go off to…
By Veronica Rarick The survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting travelled north to Tallahassee, to wield their newfound political influence to Florida’s legislatures in an attempt to change gun laws. The outspoken group is setting out to change something as old as our country: the right to bear arms (as easily as…
By Alexandra Reboredo They demanded change. Students, faculty, and parents, who feared for their lives and lives of their loved ones one week ago all gathered to drill lawmakers with pressing questions about their safety and security, and demanded answers. On Wednesday night, CNN hosted a special Town Hall at the BB&T Center in Sunrise,…
By Rozany Guzman Seventeen people died in Parkland on Wednesday. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in history. Teenagers witnessed their friends and teachers get shot. They hid in classrooms, under desks and in closets. They sent text messages to their parents. They prepared for the worst. And today, survivors of the massacre didn’t…
By Abigail Castro From learning how to ice a cake to chopping carrots, the Culinary Arts students are constantly improving and learning new skills in the kitchen. In order to keep up with the cut throat industry, culinary students must be exposed to advanced appliances and tools. For this reason, Chef Jamey Hunt, the culinary…
Inspired by Brandon Stanton’s “Humans of New York”, “Humans of MLEC” will be an attempt to get to know the people that work to run Miami Lakes Educational Center. These are their stories.
By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz As I walk through the halls of Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC), students with dark circles and thick AP review books clutched in their arms all become one monotonous wave of anxiety, depression, self-doubt and everything a teenager shouldn’t be experiencing in the prime of their youth. The pressure to “make something…
Kaitlyn Pujols Buying a laptop or tablet now-a-days can be one of the most crucial decisions of a student’s career, depending on your career path it can either make or break you. And there are so many options out there with price ranges that can range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. There’s always the…
Across the states, advances in education and the pressure to succeed is beginning to affect the lives of students. In the competitive society called the “real world”, teenagers and young adults are experiencing abnormally high levels of stress, more today than of previous years.