At the NAF Next 2023 conference in Phoenix, a heartwarming full-circle moment unfolded as Julie Kennedy, a remarkable alumna of Miami Beach Senior High’s Academy of Hospitality and Tourism, received the prestigious NAF Alumni Award. Julie graduated from the academy in 2004 and embarked on a successful career in the hospitality industry before transitioning to education [...]
Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Department of Career and Technical Education (CTE) is thrilled to announce its selection as a semi-finalist in the prestigious Career Z Challenge. This recognition reflects the department’s unwavering commitment to excellence in preparing students for successful careers in various industries through its career pathway programs and largest number of nationally distinguished NAF [...]
NAF Next is a dynamic professional development conference that brings together education, business, and community leaders to address some of the biggest challenges facing education and the workforce. NAF Next will feature innovative initiatives in order to shape a highly skilled and inclusive workforce. Participants wiill learn key strategies to improve academy quality, work-based learning, student [...]
NAF Academy of Engineering students Leandra Belizaire and Shon Barthell were awarded NAF Fund II Foundation Diversity & Equity in STEM Scholarship in the amount of $2,000 to support their STEM career college education.
American Senior High students presented their award-winning project at the Aspen Ideas conference in Aspen, Colorado on July 3, 2022.
At this year's Youth Fair competitions, we saw a nail-biting race to see which student could use their jarring drone skills to maneuver around an elaborate obstacle course filled with loops, turns, and dives in hopes of getting the fastest time.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Virtual Wall of Wind Challenge! 1st Place = Miami Coral Park 2nd Place = North Miami 3rd Place = G. Holmes Braddock 4th Place = TERRA Environmental Research Institute 5th Place = Booker T. Washington 6th Place = Jose Marti MAST
Let's all congratulate Shon Barthell for being selected to receive a $2,000 scholarship to support his STEM career path through the NAF Fund II Foundation Diversity & Equity in STEM Scholarship. We also want to congratulate you for receiving one of the Florida Power and Light (FPL)/SECME scholarships for African-American students. You are now part of [...]
Marc Gauthier, CTE teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle school, was selected to attend the 2022 National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE), National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy this summer as an NAAE Agriscience Teacher Ambassador in Tulsa, Oklahoma (July 11-15, 2022). For more than 15 years National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy (NATAA) has successfully cultivated agriscience [...]
Lisa Hauser was awarded the winner of this years Educational Innovation Abie Award by the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC). The Educational Innovation Abie Award is in honor of A. Richard Newton and it recognizes educators for developing innovative teaching practices that attract female students to educational fields such as computing, engineering, and math in K-12 or [...]
