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Student at Miami SEC Honored by Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce
From left: Cris Remmen, chair of the Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce Education Committee; Tony Garcia, board chairman of the Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce; Mary Finlan, executive director of the Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce; Daisy Benavides, NSU student and winner of the Student of the Quarter award; Kimberly Russell, assistant director for Enrollment and Student Recruitment at NSU’s Miami SEC; Ricardo Belmar, director of the NSU Miami SEC.
Daisy Benavides, an undergraduate student at NSU’s Miami Student Educational Center, was honored by the Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon on Apr. 22 held at the Capri Restaurant in Homestead, Fla. Benavides, who is majoring in elementary education, received the Student of the Quarter award for post-secondary institutions.
Benavides works full time at Baptist Hospital in Kendall and is involved with Relay for Life and the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation, and is currently team captain for March of Dimes for Baptist Hospital. Even with her active professional and community life, she still maintains a high grade point average at NSU.