FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, May 20, 2011

CONTACT: John Schuster
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
305-995-1126

Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, School Board members, and representatives from Region V, Betancourt Castellon Associates and Zyscovich, Inc.

Groundbreaking Ceremony for Medical Academy for Science & Technology Senior High School (MAST @ Homestead)

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
10 a.m.

1220 N.W. 1st Avenue
Homestead, FL 33030

The new state-of-the-art educational facility, located on the site of the former James Archer Smith Hospital in Homestead, will have approximately 820 student stations. The facility will provide educational strands for students who want to pursue pharmaceutical, physical therapy and biomedical fields. Each strand will have its own lab, which will be augmented by additional science labs and classrooms. Following demolition, the first- and second-floor interiors will be remodeled. The third floor will be blocked off and will be used for future expansion.

MAST @ Homestead will be the first medical academy located in the south Miami-Dade area, the second Medical Magnet High School in the state and one of only a handful in the nation.