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.
Fund II Academy of IT students attended the annual conference of eMerge Americas at the Miami Beach Convention Center held on April 20-21, 2022. Keynote speakers included Serena Williams, Alexis Ohanian, Pitbull and many other top leaders in the IT world. STEM Advisory Board Chair Carlos Vazquez sponsored the students.
Mrs. Doristine Williams was presented with the NAF Janet Linton National Award at the NAF NEXT conference, July 13th in Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Williams is the Lead Teacher of the Distinguished NAF Academy of Finance at Southwest Miami Senior High.
M-DCPS' NAF Career Academies outperformed all school districts AGAIN! Miami is home to 43 distinguished academies, the most in the nation! Congratulations to our new Distinguished and Model academies!
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 [...]
Marlon Vernon was officially recruited as leader of the "Dream Team" at Cisco Live conference held in Las Vegas, June 8 - June 17, 2022. Out of all the teachers, he was chosen as the best pick to instruct ten academy students. The team learned much from many IT minds and from several digital events during [...]
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2013 Alumnus from Miami Springs Senior High School AOHT Receives NAF Alumni Award The Alumni Awards recognize NAF alumni who have achieved success in either college or career, or have demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit that can be attributed in part to their academy experience. Such was the case for Gerardo Carranza, M-DCPS CTE graduate who recently became [...]
CTE Educational Specialist at Miami-Dade County Public Schools Achieves Janet Linton Leadership Award. This award recognizes outstanding academy directors and educational leaders (including district administrators, teachers, principals, etc). Created in 2006, in memory of the late San Diego Academy Director, Janet Linton, the award honors extraordinary contributions and leadership within the NAF network, at the school, [...]
