BRIGHTON — Living Seminole is more than eating frybread and Indian hot dogs. Just ask any child after a day at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School’s annual Culture Camp. "It feels like you are really taking part in something bigger than you," said eighth-grader Conner Thomas. That’s when being PECS Seminole gets real

MIAMI — At 64, Agnes Motlow isn’t close to slowing down. The Hollywood resident earned her Master of Arts in administration from Barry University May 9 and is applying for a doctorate in organizational leadership. Motlow completed the degree while working as executive assistant to General Counsel Jim Shore and caring

DAVIE — Before Sheyanna Osceola marched down the aisle at Don Taft University Center as a 2015 Nova Southeastern University (NSU) graduate, she topped her head with a mortarboard bejeweled in Seminole colors. Afterward, she placed the cap on her 2-year-old daughter as if she glimpsed the future. "If I have one

FORT PIERCE — Apolonia Nunez will never forget the first few minutes of her first day of college in 2013. "I walked into the classroom and a girl looked at me funny and asked, ‘What are you doing here? Why are you here, and how old are you?’ I said ‘13’

BIG CYPRESS — Just before the annual Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) commencement ceremony May 14 at Ahfachkee School, two 2013 graduates said that what they learned in the program has helped them navigate through their adolescence. "Drugs can really mess up your life," said Leilani Gopher, a seventh-grader who was

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — This summer Tous Jumper Young Sr. will fulfill a childhood dream when he attends Harvard University. A sophomore at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a major in abnormal psychology, Young will take four psychology courses at the Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts

SOUTHWEST RANCHES — John Osceola’s dedication to academics hasn’t gone unnoticed. The Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy High School sophomore was recently invited to attend the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders from June 28-30 in Boston, Massachusetts where he will receive an award of excellence. "The event is an inspiration. It’s

DAVIE — Fourteen-year-old Kian Madrid likes playing video games, caring for his dog, Snow White, and helping out at the Hollywood Reservation Boys & Girls Club. But the eighth-grader, who attends University School at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, knows that fun is also learning something new every day, earning high