Nikole Valiente, Author at The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College

Miami Dade College has expanded Miami Codes, a computer programming initiative launched last spring at West Campus to help minority students develop app development skills, to Kendall and North campuses. Courses began this fall. They are being offered through Apple’s community education initiative, featuring two rigorous, eight-week iOS development… Read the rest at our website.

Briefing Wolfson Campus

NWSA Opera Theatre Ensemble To Perform At Wolfson Campus

September 20, 2023 Nikole Valiente New World School of the Arts, opera

The New World School of the Arts Opera Theatre Ensemble will perform scenes from renowned operas and operettas at the Wolfson Auditorium, 300 N.E 2nd Ave., Room 1261, on Oct. 26 and Oct 27. at 7 p.m. It will feature Italian compositions, including: selections from Gioachino Rossini’s La Cenerentola… Read the rest at our website.

Sports Kendall Campus Baseball

Sharks Select Former Brewers And Marlins Scout As New Baseball Coach

September 14, 2023 Nikole Valiente MDC baseball

Miami Dade College athletics started a new era, hiring veteran scout Lazaro Llanes, who was in the Milwaukee Brewers organization for the past six years, to lead its baseball program. The 56-year-old has more than 30 years of baseball experience, including stints as a scout with the Miami Marlins,… Read the rest at our website.

News

MDC To Host College-Wide Changemaker Week, Sept. 18-24

September 13, 2023 Nikole Valiente Changemaking, iCED

Miami Dade College is hosting its first-ever Changemaker Week, a college-wide initiative to equip and inspire students and faculty to take action in their communities. Programming will run from Sept. 18 through Sept. 24 and feature student-led workshops, presentations, speaker series, community engagement expositions, film screenings and service opportunities.… Read the rest at our website.

News North Campus

New North Campus Public Safety Chief Brings Decades Of Policing Experience

September 9, 2023 Nikole Valiente Public Safety

Makiem Miller rose up the police ranks in Connecticut during the rise of community-oriented policing, a method geared toward strengthening relationships with residents to deter crime. During patrol assignments, he got to know families and business owners personally, building trust and breaking down barriers for more than two decades.… Read the rest at our website.

Briefing Kendall Campus

Kendall Campus Art Gallery Hosting The G.O.A.T. Show Faculty Art Exhibit

September 8, 2023 Nikole Valiente faculty exhibit

The Kendall Campus Art Gallery, 11011 SW 104 Street, is hosting The G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) Show, a faculty art exhibition in Room M-123 through Sept. 27. It features the work of full-time and adjunct faculty from the Kendall Campus art department, and includes prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures,… Read the rest at our website.

Briefing

MDC President Receives Latina Pioneer Of The Year Award

September 6, 2023 Nikole Valiente Hispanic Women of Distinction

Miami Dade College President Madeline Pumariega received the Latina Pioneer of the Year award at the 22nd Hispanic Women of Distinction Charity luncheon in Davie, Florida, on Aug. 25. Founded in 2001 by the late Erwin M. Vazquez, a Venezuelan-born cardiologist, philanthropist and publisher of El Herald de Broward,… Read the rest at our website.

Briefing

MDC To Hold Virtual Financial Literacy Workshop Series

September 6, 2023 Nikole Valiente financial literacy

The Young Women’s Christian Association, a South Florida-based non-profit organization that advocates for equity amongst women, is hosting four financial literacy workshops—Your Financial Literacy Journey Workshop Series—at Miami Dade College via Zoom starting on Sept. 20 from noon to 1 p.m. Future sessions will be held on Sept. 27,… Read the rest at our website.

Briefing Padrón Campus

Padrón Campus To Host Josefina Tarafa Exhibition

September 6, 2023 Nikole Valiente photo exhibition, Josefina Tarafa

The art gallery at Eduardo J. Padrón Campus, 627 S.W. 27th Ave, is hosting the Remaking Miami: Josefina Tarafa’s Photographs of the 1970s showcase in Room 3113 from Sept. 18 through Dec. 13. Featured are 30 posthumous prints of the late Cuban photographer, editor and philanthropist Josefina Tarafa, depicting… Read the rest at our website.

News North Campus Padrón Campus

Three MDC Student Publications Are Pacemaker Finalists

September 1, 2023 Nikole Valiente Pacemaker Award

Miami Dade College student publications The Reporter, Urbana and AXIS have been selected as Pacemaker finalists by the Associated Collegiate Press. All three won a National Pacemaker, the highest collegiate distinction, last year. Winners will be announced on Oct. 30 at the Associated Collegiate Press/ College Media Association Fall… Read the rest at our website.

Author: Nikole Valiente

MDC Expands Its Computer Programming Initiative, Miami Codes