Ransom Everglades concert highlights music students’ middle-school evolution

The music students of Ransom Everglades School recently performed for parents, administrators and peers during their Fall Orchestra Showcase, which highlighted the students’ evolution through three years of middle school.

The showcase opened with a performance by the sixth-grade Beginning Orchestra, followed by the Intermediate and Advanced Orchestra, and ended with the veteran Chamber Ensemble.

Also, Ransom Everglades students donated a truck filled with diapers, laundry detergent, garbage bags, batteries and other supplies to parts of Key West that were hit hardest by Hurricane Irma. The supplies were delivered to a church in Marathon that has served has a distribution center for residents in need

Miami Schools Fair And Conference

Chevron, Texaco and DonorsChoose.org are teaming up to give $500,000 to Miami-Dade Public and Public Charter Schools, including $1,000 to six Miami-Dade County teachers, and to fulfill the Fuel Your School projects of three teachers at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday at Mercy Hospital, 3663 S Miami Ave., in Miami.

Chevron’s Fuel Your School program aims to support education by helping teachers receive funding for classroom projects. To donate to local teachers, visit https://www.donorschoose.org/hurricane-irma.

Cutler Bay High School

The students of Cutler Bay High School came together to participate in the Inspire Kindness Day, which is part of the Sandy Hook Promise and Values Matter Initiative.

Members from the school’s No Place for Hate Club, which is a Florida-wide initiative to develop projects that enhance an appreciation for diversity, visited each classroom and asked their peers to write down a positive message. Club members then collected the notes and posted them on a display board near the school’s main office to remind students and staff to spread positivity.

Miami Dade College

Several Miami Dade College students in Phi Theta Kappa were named 2017 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars by the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation.

Johnathan Jimenez, Carlos Morales, Osvy Rodriguez, Cesar Sarmiento, Rachel Fernandez Diaz and Felipe Zwanzger were named Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars, while Victor Garnica was named a Military Leaders of Promise Scholar and Luis Ravelo was named a Global Leader of Promise. Each student received a $1,000 scholarship to help with expenses while enrolled in the associate degree program at Miami Dade College.

In addition to being a Leader of Promise Scholar, Garnica is also one of 10 students nationwide to receive a 2017 Pearson Scholarship for Higher Education, a $5,000 award.

This story was originally published October 17, 2017 at 5:20 PM with the headline "Ransom Everglades concert highlights music students’ middle-school evolution."