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 [...]
Coral Gables High senior Andrew Langen has tutored many fellow students in math. Sponsored by Mu Alpha Theta, the math honor society, he would tutor twice a week, an hour at a time. In the two years he participated, he helped 50 or more students. “There was one person I tutored who was a senior [...]
Elizabeth Lara-Gamboa, a senior at Coral Gables High, spent much of this past summer volunteering at the Miami Learning Center as a tutor. She dealt with children in the younger grades and not only tutored but she also went along as a chaperone on fieldtrips. A friend recommended the volunteer opportunity to her. Lara-Gamboa thought [...]
Palmetto High School senior Tiffany Batten has accumulated more than 500 community service volunteer hours. She earned many of those hours by tutoring. “I have tutored for free,” Batten says. “I’ve helped at Pinecrest Elementary and I would go to the school every Friday and help conduct experiments.” Batten is involved in the Uber Six [...]
Last summer, Palmetto High School senior Nina Batista spent several weeks as a volunteer at Camp Shelton, the camp for kids at the Shelton Academy. Batista played sports with the young campers. “My cousin asked if we wanted to help out and I said sure, because I like kids,” Batista says. Batista has also helped [...]
Palmetto High School senior Alberto Hernandez spent much of his summer working as an intern in the Florida International University agro-ecology program learning about sustainable agriculture, soil chemistry and soil microorganisms. “My counselor recommended it to me,” Hernandez says. “I didn’t want to let my brain atrophy over the summer.” He didn’t let his body [...]
When Deirdre Marie Capone was 7, her beloved Uncle Al died. She knew him as this fun man who taught her how to swim at his Miami Beach home on Palm Island. He taught her how to ride a bike and how to play a mandolin. It was after that she learned he also was [...]
