by Sam Sokol
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sitting side by side in an open office in the tech giant Cisco’s headquarters here, Roni Ashkenazi and Ayelet Ganot sat staring at lines of code on a flat screen monitor checking their work before launching a demo of their latest project — a tablet app they are calling “What Should I Do.”
AMIT, which was recently named the #1 educational network in Israel, is leading an educational revolution. Here’s how AMIT got to where it is today and why it’s so successful.
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Students from the AMIT Gwen Straus school for boys took part in one of the biggest educational events across the globe recently, joining students in hundreds of other countries for a one-hour computer programming tutorial.
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Throughout the year, AMIT students across Israel take part in various activities with senior citizens from their communities, but that bond reached new heights—literally—as young women from the AMIT high school in Tel Aviv and their elder counterparts assembled and flew drones together.
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AMIT students in Modi’in held a Hanukkah-related hackathon this week in an effort to prevent house fires caused by menorahs.
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Students from AMIT Mekif Bet Ashdod are taking part in a new cyber security class, which got underway last week with a special meeting with the CEO of Kernelios, a firm that helps train the future leaders of Israel’s cyber security front lines.
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What sets AMIT apart from other educational networks in Israel? That question was the driving force behind a whirlwind mission to Israel that Joel Silberman and Liron Yadin, AMIT’s new associate regional directors for Florida and Los Angeles, and their staffs took part in over four jam-packed days in October.
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AMIT’s Gogya teacher-training center, which opened nearly five years ago, has already brought innovative, forward-thinking changes to the way the students at our 110 schools learn. Now it has gone a step further in its goal of preparing AMIT students for the 21st century by opening an on-site “academy of entrepreneurship and innovation.”
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The annual heritage trip to Poland is a powerful rite of passage for Israeli teenagers, and the 11th-grade students at the Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sutker AMIT Modi’in School for Boys want to make sure that all of their classmates attend this year.
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Outstanding students from two AMIT schools for girls recently took part in the Tech Women 2018 conference at the Technion, one of the world’s top science and technology research universities.
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