Palmetto High School senior Zach Cosner is the school’s Silver Knight nominee in the category of Speech and Debate. Cosner has been on the school’s debate team for four years. His area of specialization is policy debate. Each year, policy debate teams are given one general issue to research for the competitions. This year’s issue [...]
Most children can’t wait until their birthday because they want a party with lots of presents. Not Rachel Seymour-Newton. When she was about to turn nine years old, she told her mom she wanted her party to be used to raise money to save dogs. “I heard about lot of dogs being abused and I [...]
Palmetto High School junior Mackenzie Gusman is a cheerful, involved student. She’s the Junior Class president, elected again after serving as president of the Class of 2014 as a freshman and sophomore. She has received the Outstanding Leadership Award for her class two years in a row and no one would be surprised if she [...]
Coral Gables High School senior Lorrelle Jock hasapproximately 550 community service hours, most approximately 550 community service hours, most earned because of her participation in the school’s music and drama programs. Jock sings and plays guitar and a little piano. “I act as well,” she said. She is not only in a chorus, but she’s [...]
Compassion is a quality that is exhibited by Coral Gables High School senior Gene Liu. Liu is involved heavily in a charity called Angels of Love, started by his uncle in Jamaica. The charity’s goal is to raise money to help critically and terminally ill children receive treatment. The charity also seeks donations of gently [...]
Coral Gables High School senior Audrey Fernandez is involved in an organization called Angels of Love Jamaica. The charity helps critically ill underprivileged children. “This past summer a few friends and I took a trip to Jamaica to volunteer with the organization. While there, I visited two hospitals, one in May Pen and one in [...]
Palmer Trinity junior Leo Rocchiccioli helps younger children succeed in school as a volunteer for Breakthrough Miami. “I started last year in the first semester of school and I’m doing it again this year,” he says. “I did not teach over the summer. I tutored a couple of times on Wednesdays.” He teaches the children [...]
For most of her high school career, Gulliver Prep senior Cristina Valencia volunteered at Miami Children’s Hospital. “In my freshman year, I realized after meeting with a counselor that I didn’t have any special activities I could put on my college resume, so I talked to my mom about it,” Valencia says. Her mother suggested [...]
Palmetto High School senior Chris Perse is an Eagle Scout. Perse did his Eagle Project at Chapman Field Park, in Nov. 2011. “We redid the whole platform around the concession stand,” he says. “We installed a ramp and we weather-proofed tables and benches around the park.” Perse chose to help refurbish the concession stand because [...]
Middle grade author Bruce Coville will be in Miami on Jan. 18-20 to speak to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Florida Regional Conference. The conference is the annual gathering of Florida’s published and aspiring children’s book authors and illustrators held at the Sheraton Miami Airport Hotel. The schedule includes writing workshops Friday [...]
Palmetto High School senior Joshua Levey likes to work with kids. Because of that, he enjoyed his time as a volunteer at the Five Star Baseball Camp at Westminster. “I worked with kids on fundamentals,” Levey says. “They played a lot of games and I supervised them.” Levey also taught the six- to eight year-old [...]
Palmetto High School senior Zoe Cosner has accumulated about 1,400 hours of community service. Many of the hours come from spending time in the lab at the University of Miami over two summers researching viruses “The first summer I worked as part of a group and the second summer I did my part of the [...]
Gulliver Prep senior Kai Ito has not forgotten his heritage. He works every Saturday as a kindergarten teacher’s assistant at the Hoshuko, Inc., a Japanese school in Miami. “It’s a way of keeping up with the Japanese language,” he says. “I actually was a student at a Japanese school. You graduate from the school after [...]
Sofia Monestier arrived at Coral Gables High as a sophomore having just moved from Brazil. She jumped right in to high school life and joined the TV Production class, which has allowed her to work on all the shows produced at Gables since then. The senior, who is president of TV Production this year, has [...]
