Press Releases & Photo Galleries

Arbor Day 2010 Celebrates Trees!

Aventura City of Excellence School, (ACES) and the City of Aventura  celebrated Arbor Day on April 29, 2010 to honor Aventura’s consistent regard and care for the natural environment. Read more...

Alumni Return Lunch Reunites ACES Students with Graduates

Aventura City of Excellence School, (ACES) Student Government Association hosted its first Annual Alumni Return Luncheon. Read more

Aventura City of Excellence School’s Becca's Closet “Dress Drive” Helps Girls Attend Proms in Style

Aventura City of Excellence School, K-8th grade students are working very hard to make Becca's Closet “Prom Dress Drive” a huge success so that high school girls all over South Florida will be able to attend their proms in style. Read more...

ACES Goes Hollywood with the O-cademy Awards

Hollywood came to ACES when Mr. Ostrick's 7th grade Civics students’ engaged in a “Red Carpet” project designed to further students’ knowledge and understanding of the 27 Constitutional Amendments, while incorporating the movie magic glamour of HOLLYWOOD’S Academy Awards. Read more...

Stiff Competition at ACES 4th and 5th Grade Spelling Bee

Fourth and fifth grade students competed against peers in ACES 4th Annual Spelling Bee. Read more...

April, 2010 - Ecology Musical Performance Teaches Students About Water Preservation

ACES 4th grade students attended an In-School Ecology Field Trip featuring the theatrical performance of “Sing Me the River” with song weaver Amy Carol Webb. Read more...

ACES Eagles Boys Basketball Travel Team’s Impressive Season

Congratulations to the 2009 – 2010 ACES Middle School Boys Travel Basketball team and Coach Jacob Goldberg for winning the 2010 Dunk Basketball Charter League Championship on Saturday, March 20th! Read more

February, 2010 - ACES Students Demonstrate Competitive Edge in Competition

ACES students Jonas Shomorony, Arie Harinton, Dennise Boncea and Miguel Gonzalez participated in the highly competitive “Math Counts” Middle School Competition held on February 27th at the Kendall Community College. More

February, 2010 - ACES SGA Leads the Way in Haiti Relief Efforts

ACES Student Government Association (SGA), students, families, staff and the City of Aventura joined together in a countywide effort to aid Haitian victims. Read more

February, 2010 - Leadership Speaker Dennis Ratner Speaks on "Values that Lead to Success in any Economy"

ACES student and families had an opportunity to hear Dennis Ratner, owner of the Ratner Companies and 1,000 US Haircuttery's dynamic talk ... Read more

January, 2010 - Career Day Positively Impacts Students & Adults

Students and speakers alike took great pleasure in experiencing Aventura City of Excellence School’s, (ACES) sixth annual Career Day. Read more...

January, 2010 - Butterflies in Space

ACES was one of ten Florida Elementary Schools selected to participate in an International Space Station life science experiment. Read more...

December, 2009 - ACES and the Miami Dolphins Demonstrate "Commitment to Community Counts"

Aventura City of Excellence School, (ACES), Middle School Leadership Speakers Series reinforces values that lead to success by bringing “Leading Entrepreneurs and Authors” to ACES to educate, motivate and inspire students and families. More

December, 2009 - Students Demonstrate Science Savvy in ACES 3rd Annual Science Fair.

Science Teacher, Ms. Lindsey Cohen led ACES 7th grade class in its 3rd Annual Science Fair in December.

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November, 2009 - Veteran's Day
Intergenerational Learning Project

ACES Intergenerational Learning Program puts “Seniors First” through school-wide service learning projects and activities where students and seniors spend meaningful time together and both groups benefit from their shared experience together.
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November, 2009 - 8th Grade Students Get Real Career Experience

ACES students get hands-on experience in the world of business through 8th grade Career and Entrepreneurship classes in conjunction with Junior Achievement’s (JA) Business course. Read more...

November, 2009 - ACES Student Government Association Shapes Leaders for Tomorrow

ACES Student Government Association (SGA) shapes young leaders for tomorrow as students learn skills in working together to give back to their school and to their community. Read more...

October, 2009 - ACES Students Partner with Chicago School for Fall Project

Ms. Zachar's Kindergarten class read the The Fall Project story, which is about a class who collects and sends fall leaves to another Kindergarten class in a different part of the country where leaves do not change color.
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October 23,2009 - 7th Graders Adopt Sea Turtle & Web 2.0 Tech

Seventh graders have adopted a seven year old Loggerhead sea turtle, named FeeBee, as they learn to adopt Web 2.0 technology. Read more...

October 13, 2009 - ACES Students Replaced by Book Characters

ACES students traded places with their favorite story book characters wthis week to kick-off ACES annual Scholastic Book Fair event. Read more...

ACES Students Honor Red Ribbon Week's Message

Red Ribbon Week was celebrated October 25-29. The purpose of Red Ribbon Week was to share the important message to be drug free with ACES students, families and the community. Read more...

September 2009 - International Peace Day

The Art of Building Community and Peace Through Culture

ACES students spent weeks of preparation in anticipation of the annual International Peace Day event. Read more...

September 2009 - Strides for Safety

Aventura City of Excellence School, (ACES) September’s Safety Awareness Month educated students on how to prevent injuries, create safer environments and on how to take a proactive approach with safer behavior matters before injuries occur. More