student making a difference

This Braddock High School senior is dedicated to community service. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer has more on this student making a difference.

Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School junior Gabriel Barrios is a leader in the band room as well as the classroom. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Among all the smarty-pants kids at the School for Advanced Studies, a public college prep school, Janet Hernandez leads the pack. Just don’t call her a scientist. “I’m not a STEM major,” Janet, a senior, is telling her friends. So she’s not going to be a STEM major in college, even though she’s acing all of her science and...

Among all the smarty-pants kids at the School for Advanced Studies, a public college prep school, Janet Hernandez leads the pack. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer has more.

As soon as you see Janiel Douglas in the aerospace engineering workshop at Plantation High School, tinkering with rockets, consulting with her peers on design specifications, you know she’s in her element.  But a love for aerospace fell into her lap like a meteorite falling to earth.  “I went to my first launch and I saw them launch the...