|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Miami Palmetto High School senior Delaney Novak volunteers every summer at the University of Miami Dive Camp. She teaches children aged 5-12 springboard diving.
“I’ve been volunteering as long as I’ve been in high school,” she says.
She teaches them how to properly hit the water without hitting their head. Novak says the kids get quite excited when they are able to do the dive correctly.
She started diving around eighth grade. Before that she was a competitive gymnast and chose diving because they seemed to be similar sports.
“I got invited to be on the team, Miami Diving,” she says.
She still dives with them. They practice at the UM.
Now she’s the captain of the Palmetto Dive Team and participates in the 1-meter springboard events. She placed second at the GMACs last year.
Novak switched schools in order to be able to dive. She was in the Coral Park High School Magnet for the biomedical program in tenth grade and the True North Classical Academy charter school for ninth grade.
Neither school had a dive team although she played volleyball at True North.
“Coral Park was really far from me, with Palmetto having a dive team, I thought it would be nice to go there,” she says.
She was ready to get back into diving. However, she’s not likely to dive in college except for a limited circumstance.
She’s been recruited by the Merchant Marine Academy about attending and toured the school. She is interested in the sea.
The drawback is that the academy only had two majors, engineering, and security science.
“That’s why I’m not thinking mainly about that school,” she says. “I want to go into the medical field and engineering wouldn’t really help with that.”
Novak thinks she might want to be a surgeon but she’s not sure in what specialty yet. She wants to stay in Florida and is considering the University of Florida, Florida State University, or UM as a biology major.
Last fall, she completed her Girl Scout Gold Award. For three or four months, she went to the Palace in Coral Gables to teach the senior residents how to use their technology.
“I had classes on Sundays that are still being taught,” she says.
One of the workers at the Palace took over the class when she left. The seniors learned how to use their phones, tablets, and laptops.
She says she’s always helping her family use their technology and so she talked to her teacher about putting together a class.
“I provide them with laminated pieces of paper with instructions on how to do things,” she says.
The sheets included how to do things for iPhones and Android phones.
At Palmetto, Novak is a member of Model United Nations.
“I like the how we get to talk about lots of different things and the different countries we get to each be,” she says. “We do a lot of research on different countries. And a lot of public speaking and writing.”
She’s a member of the National Honor Society, the Spanish National Honor Society, the French National Honor Society, and the Chinese National Honor Society.
She’s also in Women in Tech.
“Every meeting we do something different,” she says. “Last meeting we coded for a game. It’s pretty fun.”
Outside of school, she likes to travel. She’s visited London and Dubai. She’s been to St. Lucia, and she goes to Puerto Rico often.
This election season she went on a field trip to vote for the very first time.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
ABOUT US:
For more Miami community news, look no further than Miami Community Newspapers. This Miami online group of newspapers covers a variety of topics about the local community and beyond. Miami’s Community Newspapers offers daily news, online resources, podcasts and other multimedia content to keep readers informed. With topics ranging from local news to community events, Miami’s Community Newspapers is the ideal source for staying up to date with the latest news and happenings in the area.
This family-owned media company publishes more than a dozen neighborhood publications, magazines, special sections on their websites, newsletters, as well as distributing them in print throughout Miami Dade County from Aventura, Sunny Isles Beach, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Brickell, Coconut Grove, Pinecrest, South Miami, Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay and Homestead. Each online publication and print editions provide comprehensive coverage of local news, events, business updates, lifestyle features, and local initiatives within its respective community.
Additionally, the newspaper has exclusive Miami community podcasts, providing listeners with an in-depth look into Miami’s culture. Whether you’re looking for local Miami news, or podcasts, Miami’s Community Newspapers has you covered. For more information, be sure to check out: https://communitynewspapers.com.
If you have any questions, feel free to email Michael@communitynewspapers.com or Grant@communitynewspapers.com.
