CAMBRIDGE CONNECTThe Newsletter

of the Cambridge Academy Alumni

Association

Class of 2015 Graduation June 2015

FIRST TIME TOURING EUROPEhis summer Flavia studied abroad in Ma-drid and Barcelona on a Harvard Sum-

mer School program. Her classes focused on Spain’s two largest cities at the turn of the century and explored topics like art, architec-ture, history, and urbanism.

She also traveled to many smaller Spanish cities like Sevilla, Toledo, and San Sebastian. The summer was fi lled with activ-ity but ended too soon and she can’t wait to be back! Flavia was journalism class of 2015 and is Harvard class of 2018.

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ON THE RUN After graduating from Rochester Institute of Technol-ogy I moved back to miami and startedworking as a pre-press operator for the Printers Consul-tant, a miami-based large format print and sign shop. I’ve been involved in the production of signage and visuals for clients like, Miami Dade and Broward County, Pernod-Ricard, the New York City and South Beach Wine and Food Festival, NBC and Telemundo among oth-ers. I occasionally freelance as a writer and photographer and on my down time continue my practice as an aspiring artist.

Sam Angarita

BABY BORGES ON THE WAYMrs, Neyda Borges and her husband will wel-come their fi rst child on Christmas Eve.

Flavia Cuervo

TAKING CHINA BY STORMstudied Chinese language there for 6 weeks. It was a

study abroad program, in the city of Tianjin, China. We stayed in Tianjin foreign studies univer-sity, but every weekend we went to a new city. So I visited the forbid-den city, summer palace and a strip of the Great Wall in Beijing, and went to Shanghai, Qingdao, Xi’an.

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Crystal Serrano

ANOTHER YEAR ANOTHERMLEC MONTAGE CLASS

Nathalie Mariena, Vivian Bermudez, Daniel Saiz

This summer journalism stu-dents attended the University of Miami’s Peace Sullivan/James Ansin High School Workshop in Journalism and New Media. Cambridge journalism have been attend-ing this program since 2008. With the help of journalism pro-fessionals, the students learn and take part in writing, video and photograpghy.

Over the three weeks, students prodcued a single newspaper revolving around one central project. They also met with WSVN cor-responents and students are offered a ex-culsive University of Miami scholarship. Nathalie Mariena won awards for Best News Story and Best Video and was submitted in the Dow Jones contest.

BEST FEMALE ATTENDS MIT Stephanie Brito, current jour-nalism senior, was one of the 68 students selected to venture off to MIT through the M.I.T.E.S program. Over the course of 6 weeks, she was met with the challenge of taking rig-orous classes in a mini semester. At the end of program, she was awarded Best Female Student - breaking down the barriers that women can be in science.

Stephanie Brito

INFILTRATING TELEMUNDO Gabriella Nunez, journalism class of 2013, spent her summer interning at Telemundo. There she wa able to work on her boardcast journalism and be sent of as-signments like red carpets. It was an amazing experience and she was sad to go but she learned a lot.

Gabriella Nunez

CHANGING THE LAKER

t the start of the summer, I got an in-ternship with The Miami Laker. How

I got it was a funny story... I saw their Twitter page wasn’t being updated often so I sent a tweet that went something like this: “Hey, noticed you guys need help managing your social media. I manage @HarbingerMLEC’s. #Internship?” It was a spur-of-the-moment de-cision & I didn’t think they would reply. I am now their official Social Media Man-ager!

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Maria Vasquez

ENGINEERING IN CHINA

WHAT’S HAPPENING

AT MLEC

- We have a new Vice Prin-cipal, Mrs. Sears; she’s been very tough.

- Mr. Parker will remain as Principal until October.

- Drafting has been cut as a strand and students are currently being moved into other strands.

- There are five MLEC students on JSA state cab-inet.

My friends and family know that I like my traditional Chinese culture. Ever since I discovered ancient China during AP World History, I have been fascinated with my family’s culture ever since. I read up on ancient history, practice calligraphy, and I self-taught myself Chinese. Heck, I even have Tang Dynasty furniture in my own bedroom. I had always wanted to visit my family’s ancestral homeplace, and I evenly bra-zenly questioned my parents why I never did. This summer I had the pleasure of studying engineering for 3 months in Shanghai, China as part of a joint pro-gram between University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiaotong University, one of

the top 5 universities in China, especially in STEM. I not only had the opportunity to learn about engineering design in the Asia-Pacific, but in the human condition. The most important realization I made upon coming to China is that my western mindset is ingrained in my thinking. If you come to China, please try to stop yourself from rationalizing the Chinese using a western mindset. The biggest thing you need to carry with you is having open-minded-ness to try new things! But there is a reason for every-thing, and nothing would be new if things were done the same everywhere! Do not bring expectations with you; leave them behind.

Suzanne Wong

SUMMER AT SAMS

Class of 2016 engineering stu-dent, Dionisio De La Rosa had the priv-ledge to attend Carnegie Mellon Univer-sity’s SAMS Program. A program meant

for students pursuing career in engineer-ing. The goal of the program is to prepare students for admission to selective col-leges and universities.

Dionisio De La Rosa

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SAVING THE WORLD

00,000 women worldwide are affected by cervical cancer,

and more than 270,000 of those women lose their lives to the dis-ease. Here in the U.S. we’re equipped with advanced medical techniques such as Pap smears and colposcopies that allow for early detection and treatment. But, 75% of cervical can-cer incidences occur in Africa and other low resource areas. This summer I had the opportunity to conduct cervical cancer research at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine under Dr. Jessica

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Ramella-Roman, developing a low cost microendoscope that can make the detection and diagno-sis of cervical cancer incidences in rural areas a much more feasi-ble possibility. To say the least, it was a rewarding experience and having the opportunity to get in devel-opmental scientific research on a global scale reminds me of how important it is that we all put in an effort to advance bound-aries not only for ourselves, but also for those who aren’t lucky enough to have the resources in our hands.

RESCUING ANIMAL LIVES IN S. FLORIDA Alferdo Gonzalez spent his summer helping the South Florida Wildlife Center, an affiliate of the Humane Society. There he helped res-

cue and provided rehabilitive care for injured and /or aban-doned native and non-na-tive wildlife in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach tri-county.

Alferdo Gonzalez

TRACKING THEIR VISION Issac Manjarres, engi-neering Class of 2013, spent his summer working with robot-ics-like technology. He designed and imple-mented a library of functiond for researchers to use to collect self-reported data, as well as eye traching date from subjects. Issac also managed to implement some data analysis functions. In plainer english, Issac created a tool that allows reach-ers to collect data from their sub-jects as well as track their vision. He also did some work on anaylz-ing vision data. Issac Manjarres

STAYING LOCAL Class of 2011’s Lauren Franquiz has been keeping busy. She graduated from FSU and got into the Mental Health MS program at UF, but de-ferred for a year. She accepted a position at UM, office of University Advancement, where she handles event planning for donor relations. In addition she is a Crisis Counselor at Switchboard Miami

Lauren Franquiz

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