By Rene David Basulto - Monsignor Edward Pace HS
MIAMI GARDENS | Around 400 students from 11 middle schools across South Florida competed Dec. 6 in Msgr. Edward Pace High School’s 2014 Spartan Academic Olympics. The annual event celebrates the academic achievements of middle school students in multiple subject areas, such as English, math, foreign languages, and science.
Academic Olympians arrived at the Pace campus early in the morning to register and take their exams in Pace classrooms. Olympians were divided into seventh and eighth grade groups for each subject and assessed by Pace teachers. For most of the 11 subject categories, students were assessed based on written exams, with the exceptions of art, music, and speech.
While students took their exams, their parents were given a tour of the campus by current Pace students and staff. After the tests were completed, results were tallied and the middle school students filed back into the Spartan Center for the presentation of the individual and overall awards. The first, second, and third place individual winners for each subject in both seventh and eighth grade were honored on stage with a certificate presented to each of them by Msgr. Pace High'd principal, Ana Garcia.
In the overall awards, Annunciation School in Hollywood won first place in both the seventh and eighth grade Division 2A category. In that same division, St. John the Apostle School in Hialeah and Mother of Our Redeemer School in Miami won second and third place, respectively, for seventh-graders while St. Bartholomew in Miramar and St. John the Apostle won second and third place, respectively, for eighth graders.
In the Division 1A category, St. Rose of Lima School in Miami Shores won first place for seventh graders and Immaculate Conception School in Hialeah won first place for eighth graders.
Msgr. Pace High will be holding its entrance exam Jan. 24, 2015 at 8 a.m. For more information on enrollment, please visit www.pacehs.com, email [email protected], or call 305-923-7223, ext. 342.
