Starting in the coming school year, students at AMIT Ashkelon Bet Jr. and Sr. High School will have the option of pursuing smart transportation studies that will introduce them to the scientific and planning aspects of the futuristic field.
The new academic track will expose high-achieving computer science, engineering, and physics students to the burgeoning industry of high-tech transportation. This program is the second such track at a southern Israeli school and only the fifth such program in all of Israel.
Prospective students and their parents got to hear more about the smart transportation studies at a recent information session and got an overview of what they will learn: microelectronics, robotics, nanotechnology, microcomputers, and other high-level science subjects.
Students who pursue this track earn a full bagrut (matriculation) certificate as well as a technological certificate.
Yaniv Akiva, the school’s principal, said he is confident that the students who enroll in this track “will become part of an important and in-demand profession of the future, one that will challenge them for life. This profession combines diverse fields of study and exposes students to learning of the future.”
