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MLEC and Tech Split After 24 Years
MLEC and its companion technical college split over the summer, resulting in some changes around the school. Learn more as told by Thomas Farrugia.
MLEC Student Creates Website Where He Shares His Skills In Form of Wallpapers
By Anthony Vidal Raynolds Romero is a student who enjoys the arts of digital design, photography and editing. On his website, Raynolds Cam, he shares his love for the arts with his original wallpapers for free. Romero is a junior at Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) in the IT Academy, Web Design strand. During Thanksgiving…
The Life In Social Media
By Valentina Foglia Addiction can come in many forms, with the more serious forms being drugs and alcohol. Still, after many generations and studies, a new manifestation of addiction has risen: social media. The materialization of life events, influences, and environment largely determines behavioral development in human beings, even if that very growth centers around…
Can the Video Game Industry Regulate Itself?
By Armando Bernal IV Anyone who has played a video game in the past couple years would have probably run into a microtransaction— small payments for in-game content. Microtransactions have been coined by the video game industries to tempt players into spending money. With so many games and so many temptations, it’s hard to refuse…
Best Wireless Earphones For Students
By Daniel Gonzalez III From Our September Issue Earphones have always been a student’s everyday carry item. Whether it is to listen to music on the bus or watch a YouTube video while waiting to be picked up, one can assure students will have it on them. And now with school being conducted online, it…
M-DCPS Gets Confronted by Cyber Attack
By Valentina Foglia For two days in a row, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) students and teachers haven’t been able to access the district’s new e-learning website — for a county that is doing virtual back-to-school, this has unleashed chaos. Parents are angry. Teachers are exhausted. Students are desperate. Some parents and students alike have…
SpaceX’s Historical Falcon 9 Rocket Launch
By Fabiha Faruque For humanity in the advent of space exploration, the past three days have been a time of wonder, anticipation, and exuberant vitality. For the first time in the United States since 2011, an orbital spacecraft — SpaceX Crew Dragon — was launched this past Saturday from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying two…
Back to School: Guide to Technology
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…