Tag: School for Advanced Studies

When Raul Campos’ family heard rumors that the wet-foot, dry-foot policy that granted immigration privileges to Cuban refugees might be terminated, coming to the United States became a ‘now or never’ journey.  The family made their voyage...
Pakistani natives Faisal Imtiaz Mohammad and Shahla Mohammad worried that their four American children—Hisham, Waleed, Sameer and Raania—would lose focus studying in what they view as a lax college culture in the United States.  So the Mohammads...

SAS Ranked As Fifth Best High School In The United States

Miami Dade College’s School for Advanced Studies has been ranked as the fifth best high school in the nation—and tops in Florida—by the U.S....

Feeling Lost On Campus? Now you can Ask Alexa

Andres Gutierrez stands in the main rotunda at West Campus, hovering over a black plastic-top desk where an Amazon Echo Dot sits next to...

SAS Student Aims To Make Driving Safer

Seventeen-year-old Mark Merwitzer frequently wears a suit to meet with lobbyists to fight a social ill that is second nature to many teens —...

Six School For Advanced Studies Students Receive Posse Scholarships

Six School for Advanced Studies students were awarded the Posse Foundation scholarship, which covers full tuition for up to four years at any of...

SAS Senior Gives Back To Education

Daniela Hernandez, a School for Advanced Studies senior at North Campus, started an organization called ShareJoy that focuses on helping impoverished children in Kenya...

High School Students To Launch Rocket Into Space

In just one lunchtime conversation last November, two high school juniors brainstormed and exchanged ideas, simulated rocket launches online, and began to devise a...

Rigorous High School Program To Expand At MDC-West

The School for Advanced Studies is coming to MDC-West this fall. “We are very academic-centered,” said Omar Monteagudo, the principal of the School for...

SAS Student Aspires For The Ivy Leagues Balancing Studies And Grueling Chemotherapy Treatments

Looking in the mirror one weekend, about two and a half years ago, Sterling Velazquez noticed something different about his face. It wasn’t the...

SAS Student Aspires To Be Emergency Room Doctor

Not many graduate high school and college at 17. However, Taryn Henderson, a Miami Dade College student in the School of Advanced Studies program, will...