Ahead of the Passover holiday, students at AMIT Hammer Junior and Senior High School for Boys transformed their school into a “chesed factory,” where they packed boxes of food and other provisions for 200 families in need.
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The city of Givat Shmuel was looking for a new logo that illustrates the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, so it held a competition and received dozens of entries. The winning logo design came from Mor Cohen, a 7th-grader at Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel.
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By Amnon Eldar, Director General of AMIT
Assaf Rappaport, head of research and development at Microsoft Israel, recently said that the greatest missed opportunity in Israeli high-tech is the lack of women—they account for less than 20% of the high-tech workforce.
Students from the AMIT Hallel Junior and Senior High School for Girls recently won a regional competition focused on EdTech, or education technology, and has advanced to the national round.
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Eliezer Torres, a student at AMIT Ma’ale Adumim Junior and Senior High School for Boys, was recently recognized as an “outstanding oleh” by the Education Ministry’s religious education administration.
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Israel held its first national competition dedicated to programming and building autonomous cars this week, and the team from the Lewis and Wolkoff Preparatory Army Program at the Gloria and Henry I. Zeisel and Family Junior College at Kfar Blatt came in first place.
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A new pre-army junior college will be opening at the AMIT Elaine Silver Technological High School in Beersheva, and it will play a critical role in helping the Israeli Army maintain its advanced computer systems. As the first co-ed training college of its kind, it will also play a critical role in helping young women train to become computer technicians and engineers.
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Seven AMIT educators were recently recognized at “teachers of the century” by the Education Ministry’s religious education administration. Each of the seven were lauded for the devotion to their students, for their professionalism, for being key individuals who contribute to the schools where they work and to the students they nurture and teach.
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Going to the emergency room is never fun and often requires hours of waiting. To help ease that process, students at AMIT Wasserman Torah, Arts and Sciences Junior High School for Girls recently developed a device that would gather and save a patient’s medical information and distribute it among medical staff treating that person.
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The revolutionary Israeli medical technology company Brainsway, a leader in the non-invasive treatment of brain disorders, capped off 2017 by breaking its quarterly earnings record and raising $8.5 million from Israeli investors.
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