Palmer Trinity School junior Karina Schiappa Pietra remembers those terrible days her brother Anthony spent in the hospital when he was being treated for Non- Hodgkin’s T Cell lymphoma. “My brother had aggressive chemo and sometimes he had to stay at the hospital for a week,” she says. “He spent weeks in the hospital and [...]
Nikita Kulkarni is the Gulliver Prep Silver Knight nominee in the general scholarship category. Kulkarni is not only strong academically, she is also very involved in extracurricular activities at Gulliver. “I’m part of a major club, Interact,” she says. “We volunteer at an Alzheimer’s home sponsored by Easter Seals. We visit once a month [...]
Every Sunday, Palmetto Senior High School junior Katherine Heldt joins with other members of her church to feed the homeless. “I go to Old Cutler Presbyterian,” Heldt says. “We make bags with meals in them, and then we take a bus or van to downtown Miami and pass them out.” The church group sets up [...]
Palmetto High School junior Hunter Nash is a musician. He started playing guitar at age five, switched to cello in elementary school, then switched back to guitar when he joined his first jazz band in middle school. Now he is in the Palmetto jazz band and plays guitar for the Community Arts Program’s All Star [...]
Paulo Parente is the Gulliver Prep nominee for the Silver Knight Award in Science. “I’ve always taken the hardest science classes,” Parente says. “I take classes about learning about the world rather than literature. I like learning about how the body works and the world functions.” Parente is working on his goal to become doctor [...]
Mollie Dixie Beek is the Gulliver Prep Silver Knight nominee for English and Literature. It’s a good fit for Beek because they just happen to be her favorite subjects. “I love reading and analyzing,” Beek says. “Writing has always been one of my passions. I love writing essays and I love researching.” Beek, a senior [...]
Palmetto High School senior Clayre Benzadon takes time out of her busy schedule to participate in the Friendship Circle at the Chabad of Kendall. “Right now, I’m working with a child who is blind in one eye,” Benzadon says. “She’s six years old, but she doesn’t talk. She has a lot of problems in social [...]
School for Advanced Studies senior David Pena has won a full scholarship to the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) from the QuestBridge program. The QuestBridge program matches low income high school students with one of 40 colleges and pays for their education. The value of the scholarship is $200,000 because it not only covers [...]
Coral Gables High junior Lucila (Lulu) Scavino has earned more than 500 community service hours. Most of the hours come from her participation in the Cavalier Singers and a new all-female ensemble called Divaaz. “It’s after school but we do things on weekends and we do school events,” Scavino said. “We do a variety of [...]
Every other Sunday Coral Gables High senior James Ziv takes part in Friendship Miami where he helps special needs children develop their sensory skills through different activities. “I started doing this in 10th grade,” Ziv said, adding that this year he is president of the organization. “Each volunteer has a specific child. They work with [...]
Before Spring Break, Coral Gables High senior Eric Ponce learned he was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Now, he’s trying to decide which school to attend, since he also has been accepted into Cornell and Georgia Tech. “I’m leaning toward MIT. I’m a math and science nerd,” Ponce said, adding he will [...]
Last summer, Terra High School junior Sigal Sax worked at Zoo Miami with the Conservation Teen Scientists program talking to zoo visitors about conservation. “It was sponsored by the zoo,” Sax says. “It’s a new program and you go through training for a few months. After that, we went out into the field and talked [...]
Palmer Trinity junior Marina Bryant has acquired more than 5,000 community service hours as a result of her work with the Chapman Partnership for the Homeless. She has done so much volunteer work with organization that she won the Red Cross Spectrum Youth Award. Bryant became involved with the Chapman Partnership when she was in [...]
Palmetto High School senior Carley Wayne has accumulated more than 700 community service hours. Some of those hours come from her work with the new No Place for Hate task force. “We actually just declared Palmetto High School a No Place for Hate, a bully-free community,” Wayne says. “We have a lot of activities in [...]
