Students from the AMIT Kennedy Junior and Senior High School in Acco won first place at the international science and education program called GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment).
The program’s mission is to promote the teaching and learning of science, enhance environmental literacy and stewardship, and promote scientific discovery. There are more than 4,000 schools from 128 countries that take part in the competition.
The students presented their scientific research related to generating “green” electricity from trees. They showed that by using the trees’ natural conductivity they could produce electricity that doesn’t harm the environment or humans.
The AMIT Acco students’ work impressed the judges of the international competition, which comprises NASA experts, as well as European and Israeli physicists, who awarded them first place for outstanding participation in collaborative science research.
Etti Zabary, the principal of AMIT Kennedy, congratulated the students and their teachers on the important international prize. “I am proud of the students, who achieved an impressive level of scientific research and writing, demonstrating cooperation and collaborative research efforts,” she said.
The GLOBE program is an international science and education program that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process, and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth and global environment. Announced by the U.S. Government on Earth Day in 1994, GLOBE launched its worldwide implementation in 1995.
