- For the third year, 11th-grade-students from the ORT Braude College Enrichment Center in Karmiel have won the Weizmann Institute's annual physics tournament.
Students were required to build an uncrackable code for a safe, based on physics principles, and attempt to crack as many of their competitors' codes as possible.
The five winning students, Igor Chatsik, Itemar Ginnegar, Elaz Raz, Yoav Weizmann and Omer Rak, have been attending classes at the Enrichment Center for three years. Their prize was a grade of 100 on their practical physics matriculation exam.
Headed by Dr. Eli Raz from the Technion, the ORT Braude Enrichment Center is renowned for its achievements in a number of different competitions. It attracts hundreds of high school students from the surrounding area who attend extra-curricular afternoon classes in the sciences given by members of the Technion. In addition to physics, course offerings include genetics, chemistry, aeronautics and geology.
students win olympics design competition
- Na'ama Shachar, an 11th-grader at ORT Horowitz Comprehensive High School in Karmiel, won first place in a worldwide poster design competition sponsored by the Olympics Organizing Committee in Sydney. Five of the nine posters submitted by ORT Horowitz under the direction of graphic arts teacher Ami Ravid reached the finals.
'sunflowers' expands to summer program
- As part of its "Sunflowers" project ("Chamaniot" in Hebrew), ORT Israel organized short summer camps for children suffering from cancer. Eighty children, ages 8 to 13, and their families enjoyed summer activities, living in the dormitories and using the facilities on the campus of ORT Braude. They were accompanied by ORT Israel high school students from across the country who have volunteered to work with the children.
More than 300 10th-grade-students from nine schools participate in "Sunflowers" during the school year, visiting young patients in eight pediatric oncology wards to teach them computer and Internet skills while establishing friendships.
Netvision, Israel's leading Internet provider, has partnered with ORT, supplying the hardware and developing an Internet-based learning system for the oncology departments. ORT Israel provides teaching materials in Hebrew, Russian and Arabic.
Jewish and Arab students in virtual cultural connection
- After several months of virtual discussions on the Internet, Jewish students from ORT Guttman in Netanya recently met their counterparts from the Arab-Israeli village of Musheirafa. During the past school year, both groups participated in a multicultural project aimed at bringing together different groups in Israeli society and narrowing the rifts between them. The project, supported by the Ministry of Education, included building a database on Jewish and Arabic cultures featuring folk tales, holidays and customs. The database will eventually be available to the general Web-surfing public.
Ethiopian-born students prepare for software development career
- Before performing their military service, 18 young Ethiopian-born women are attending a special course organized by ORT Israel in cooperation with the Ministries of Education and Labor. Some of the participants are studying to become practical software engineers while others are first completing a preparatory course before enrolling in the same program. ORT Israel Deputy Director-General and Director of Administration of Colleges Dr. Moshe Fass views the project "as part of a continuous Zionist vision and as a vanguard for Ethiopian integration within the community."
ORT URUGUAY HIGHLIGHTS
academic performance recognized
- Members of the Uruguayan Parliament awarded a National Recognition for Merit, the first of its kind, to ORT Uruguay University for "outstanding academic achievements" during 1999. ORT Uruguay was selected from all public and private academic institutions in the country.
new joint doctoral program
- To enhance the school's research and development in computer sciences and related fields, ORT Uruguay has established a joint doctoral program in software engineering with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, one of the leading engineering universities in the Spanish-speaking world. The program has three areas of concentration: software engineering, database and knowledge management, and language paradigms and environments for computer programming.
Since its launch in July, students from Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia have enrolled. All courses are offered at ORT Uruguay's campus in Montevideo, and most of the research is expected to be conducted there as well.
computer lab inaugurated in Czech Jewish museum
- World ORT established a computer lab at the Education and Culture Center in The Jewish Museum in Prague. The museum, the only one of its kind in the Czech Republic, has recently released a CD-ROM which is the first multimedia basic overview of Jewish history in Bohemia and Moravia. It is aimed mainly at secondary school students in the Czech Republic and includes a brief introduction to Jewish religion, laws and customs.
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