Carrollton celebrates its seniors with a car parade and handcrafted care packages
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The faculty and staff of Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart celebrated its Class of 2020 by cheering on students and hosting a parade with cars filled with handmade signs of encouragement for the senior class. The graduating class also received handcrafted care packages.
In addition, students participated in a charity food drive for the Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, where seniors and their families delivered food and essential items to help others during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Breakthrough Miami/FIU Summer Program
Breakthrough Miami and Florida International University announced that their fifth annual STEAM summer program, Growlight, will take place virtually from June 15 to July 17, 2020.
Growlight provides students with real-time design projects in a four-week ‘think-tank’ environment, where students learn urban design principles, an introduction to entrepreneurship, and mentorship from FIU faculty and graduate students.The program costs $1,100, and full scholarships are available for Breakthrough scholars.
For information or to apply, visit www.Breakthroughmiami.org. For questions, contact Horace Buddoo at 305-646-7210 or horace@breakthroughmiami.org.
MDC students earn top awards
Miami Dade College’s Phi Beta Lambda chapter earned top awards at the virtual Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference, with students from Homestead, North, and Padrón campuses collecting top awards. The winners will compete at the 2020 PBL National Leadership Conference this summer.
Phi Beta Lambda is one of the premier collegiate business organizations in the country, and the chapter based at MDC has earned more than 100 awards in state and national competitions. This year’s first place winners, and their categories, are as follows: Steven Olvera in administrative technology; Lisandro Mate and Ineliz Hernandez Ortiz in accounting analysis and decision making; Carmen Pages in accounting principles and accounting for professionals; Samir Kalouf, Andrea Moran and Enrique Torres in business ethics; Andrea Moran in cybersecurity; Nicholas Perez, Brian Delgado and Ahmed Bharoocha in economic analysis and decision-making; Natasha Fernandez in help desk; Jessica Reyes in job interview; John Dean in sales presentation; and Angel Diaz and Natasha Fernandez in social media challenge.
The second-place winners and their categories include Ketsia Severe in business ethics; Sabrina Kilo and Carmen Pages in business presentation; Daniel Dass in hospitality management; Stephany Tejera in justice administration; Ahmed Bharooch and Jaime Jimenez in microeconomics, and Enrique Torres in project management.
The third-place winners and their categories include Lisandro Mateo in accounting for professionals; Samir Kalouf in computer applications; Natasha Fernandez in financial concepts; Allison Martinez in insurance concepts; Angel Diaz in justice administration; Brian Delgado in macroeconomics; and Jouva Xie in marketing analysis and decision making.