http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Silver Knights 60 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:19:39 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/front-page/story/541043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/front-page/story/541043.html Wed, 21 May 2008 00:01 EDT One conducted independent research that helped extend the lives of cancer patients. Another starred in a Web video that spoofed Miami's Chonga culture -- and became an instant sensation on YouTube. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/514905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/514905.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Matthew Capeletti wants to make sure all struggling students have a shot at winning the Nobel Prize. To keep his classmates -- and students across the country -- from giving up on schoolwork they don't understand, Matthew, a senior at William T. McFatter Technical Center in Davie, created a free Web-based service called TutorChatLive.com. The site provides unlimited tutoring in math and science -- and almost any other subject. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/542145.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/542145.html Thu, 22 May 2008 03:02 EDT She fooled you. Without the hair goop and the fake-gold hoops, Mimi Davila is no chonga. She's a scholar. A humanitarian. A Silver Knight. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/445038.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/445038.html Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:01 EST When he was growing up in Margate, Daniel Bernard Roumain, 36, did two things obsessively: He practiced his violin and he listened to his family's stories about life in their native Haiti. "I absorbed from that just as much as I did from the records I listened to," he said. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/468542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/468542.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:22 EDT Silver Knight recipients and their families wrote in to the Miami Herald to share their thoughts on what the award has meant to them and how it shaped their lives. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/589949.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/589949.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:54 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/561532.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/561532.html Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Kevin Mintz rolled his electric wheelchair up to the podium in the middle of the stage Friday. He looked down at his white graduation gown and then addressed the crowd, his speech slow and labored. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/558695.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/558695.html Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Artist Yazmany Arboleda was working Wednesday morning to open an installation piece called The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/556619.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/556619.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:28 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/556830.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/556830.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:58 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/539596.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/539596.html Tue, 20 May 2008 00:01 EDT A lot has changed in 50 years, but not the quality of South Florida's Silver Knights. The prestigious Silver Knight Awards -- bestowed on high school seniors who are standouts in their communities and classrooms -- reached its golden anniversary this year. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/549965.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/549965.html Tue, 20 May 2008 01:00 EDT Steven S. Reinemund's comments from the Silver Knight Awards ceremony on May 20, 2008: http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/537143.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/537143.html Sun, 18 May 2008 03:01 EDT A proud fraternity of brainy and charitable people will welcome a new class to its ranks on Tuesday. Fifteen outstanding Miami-Dade high school seniors will be named Silver Knight Award winners, joining the 15 Broward seniors who won the honor last month and the hundreds who have come before them. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/535375.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/535375.html Fri, 16 May 2008 03:01 EDT He helped defuse the United States' biggest prison uprising, spent a decade restoring an iconic Key West cultural center and is now proposing to create a federal historical park around Miami's Freedom Tower. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/535378.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/535378.html Fri, 16 May 2008 03:01 EDT Johnita Due, daughter of civil rights activists John Due and Patricia Stephens Due, has come full circle. A Silver Knight award winner in journalism, she is now making sure the voices of people who often aren't heard get their say. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/535380.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/535380.html Fri, 16 May 2008 03:01 EDT Arts: Nancy Kunce, Killian Athletics: Rufus Ferguson, Killian Citizenship: Maximo Gomez, Coral Gables Drama: Patricia Idlette, Miami http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526816.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526816.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Nancy Franks McCue marked a series of firsts before retiring from the North Miami police department in 2000: the first female office, sergeant, lieutenant and commander. But her ''firsts'' started at Hialeah High School, as the school paper's first female Boys' Sports Editor. And in 1962, she became her school's first Silver Knight winner. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526819.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526819.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT She danced in Spain under the name Helena Alonso -- but she didn't know a lick of Spanish. Today Lynn Paisley teaches Spanish and journalism at MAST Academy. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526820.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526820.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT At age 2, Trine Engebretsen became Florida's first liver transplant recipient. She has made a lifetime commitment to helping others receive organ replacements and encouraging others to donate. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526818.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/526818.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Art: Michael Gelfo, Southwest Athletics: Michael Fortier, Miami Citizenship: Russell Bizette Jr., Southwest Drama: Julius T. Lee, Booker T. Washington http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/518141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/518141.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT Before winning the Silver Knight in foreign languages, Nadeige Laleau, nee Elusma, doubted she would live to see her 18th birthday. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/518145.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/518145.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT MIAMI-DADE COUNTY Art: Myra Rosen, Gulliver Athletics: Terri Snyder, Sunset Business: Jeanne Belin, Palmetto Drama: Juan Martinez, Miami http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509161.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509161.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT On Aug. 15, 2007, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Peru, leveling swaths of the port cities of Pisco, Ica and Chincha. Hundreds of people were killed, thousands left homeless. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509164.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509164.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Jeff Lynn has always had a passion for the arts, and now he is the administrative and development coordinator for the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. He has also coordinated preview screenings of 100 films in 30 days at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509162.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509162.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Irvin Lustig is one of the original developers of software used to run major airlines, telecommunications companies, manufacturing, transportation, financial services and the U.S. defense program. In some sense, he says, his software touches you every day -- you just never knew it. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509163.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/509163.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Miami-Dade Art: Matthew Mornick, Coral Reef Athletics: Michael Hepburn, Miami Central Business: Jeffrey DeMott, Homestead Drama: Sarah Graber, Palmetto http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/500645.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/500645.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT David Heffernan was goofing around with some buddies in the audience during the presentation of the Silver Knight award for athletics in 1980. The Columbus High senior didn't think he had a chance to win. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/491725.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/491725.html Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:01 EDT Colleen Grady can pinpoint the moment her life changed. It was September 2000. Grady, an attorney for an international law firm, was vacationing with a friend in Cambodia. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/492772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/492772.html Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Ana Maria Rodriguez and her daughter, Annette, have each won a Silver Knight. Today, the awards sit proudly side by side in the family room. But there's room for more. http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/492771.html http://www.miamiherald.com/silverknights/story/492771.html Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Annette Rodriguez 1999 Mathematics Our Lady of Lourdes Academy Q: What drew you to win the award in that category? A: Both my parents are really numbers oriented. My mother's a math teacher and my father's a CPA. My mother was actually my math teacher at St. Agatha. She probably had some influence.