Innovative Media Center Unveiled at Redland Middle School

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation and the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship Game (CFPNCG) Host Committee unveiled a new media center at Redland Middle School this morning, complete with virtual reality (VR) equipment, roaming desks, a robotics section, a new Promethean board and more than a dozen computer stations.

Redland Middle is one of 16 Miami-Dade public middle schools having its media centers transformed into technology-rich innovation spaces over the next two years. All the partners will continue to unveil new projects at different schools throughout the year.

Eighth-grader Gregory Worcester, who gave greetings on behalf of students at the ceremony, was thrilled with the results of the renovation. “It’s beautiful! They remodeled it and made everything look better. When you come in here, it looks like it’s part of a new fancy tech high school.”

A robotic section is part of the features of Redland Middle’s new Innovation Space.

Attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony were Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho; District 9 School Board member Luisa Santos; Britton Banowsky, CFPNCG executive director; Judge Michael Chavies, president and chair of the Orange Bowl Committee Board of Directors; Eric Poms, Orange Bowl Committee chief executive officer; Thomas G. Abraham, chairman of the Anthony R. Abraham Foundation; and Redland Middle Principal Gregory Beckford.

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