AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan students won the national junior high school cyber competition sponsored by the Ministry of Education. This summer, four representatives of the team, Daniel Hoch, Daniel Cohen, Noam Foss and Eldar Kellner, were invited to meet with Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who granted them their award.
Liat Carmon-Kolet, coordinator of software engineering and cyber studies at AMIT Bar Ilan, said that the cyber championship was a challenging and unique experience for all 300 junior high students. “Everyone experienced independent learning and the skills of writing and understanding code,” said Carmon-Kolet. “In addition, the cyber track students who represented us in the finals performed tasks that required high-level algorithmic thinking and teamwork under pressure. The collaborative and creative thinking, which are 21st century skills, empowered the students and won them the championship.”
The cyber championship is a unique collaboration between joint Ministry of Education, the Rashi Foundation, and the Israeli Advanced Technology Industries (IATI) organization in which students learn the basics of cyberspace, programming and computers. Schools competed in head-to-head cyber battles, based on grade level. The first stage of the competition involved a quarter of a million children and 1,900 schools (from third to twelfth grades). Ultimately, two hundred schools – elementary and secondary – competed for the championship in the spring. The AMIT Bar Ilan team reached the finals with the highest ranking, and in preparation for the final stage participated in intensive training where they practiced different techniques of programming.
Congratulations!
Photo: AMIT Ginsburg Bar Ilan Gush Dan faculty and students with Education Minister Naftali Bennett
