iPrep Academy

Nia Nelson knows her away around Aventura Hospital.  The iPrep Academy senior, who graduated Tuesday, has been a volunteer high school intern at the hospital for nearly two years.   “It was comfortable here, I enjoyed doing it, even though it was school assigned, I really appreciated the opportunity to intern here,” Nia said.   Nia says she didn’t...

NBC 6’s Ari Odzer has the story of a South Florida senior, who, despite being homeless, dedicates hours to volunteering at Aventura Hospital and has earned a full-ride scholarship to FIU.

The walkout comes 10 days before thousands of people will take part in the March For Our Lives event scheduled for March 24th.

The local school districts are practically in a race to create more options available to students. They’ve added hundreds of magnet and choice programs over the past five or six years.

It’s high school graduation season, which means a new crop of college kids, leaving home soon. Now is the time for parents to talk to their teenagers about the challenges on the horizon, and the Parent Toolkit, designed as a free resource by NBC News, can help. “The takeaway is that there’s support, it empowers parents, and sometimes parents...

President Donald Trump, portrayed in a new book as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office, spoke out on Saturday to defend his mental fitness and defend his actions regarding the Russia probe, saying he is “like, really smart” and has been “100 percent proper.” He posted a series of tweets from Camp David, the presidential retreat...

Ines Boubakri earns Tunisia its first fencing medal as she wins the bronze prize over Russia’s Aida Shanaeva.

At iPrep Academy, a public magnet high school, all students are issued laptops and they all know how to use them. Now, thanks to Maria Mejia, more and more students at the school have gone beyond just using, they’re programming computers as well.

You hear it all the time: Technology jobs will dominate the workplace of the future.

Felix Varela High School is huge. The West Kendall school has 3,200 students, but enough variety and choices in its academic menu to give all of them a chance to thrive in an area of interest.