Leading up to Yom Ha’atzmaut, the staff and students at the Gloria & Henry I. Zeisel and Family Junior College at Kfar Blatt held a huge “happening” dedicated to academic excellence and technological professions, especially auto-tech.
The festive event comprised different displays of technological innovations, including robotics and Jaguar’s first electric car in Israel, as well as a display of collectible cars, activities for children, and a photo exhibition of the junior college’s students.
The high point of the day was the annual competition for advanced car systems diagnostics. All 12 of the finalists are students of the Lewis and Wolkoff Preparatory Army Program at the Zeisel junior college, which combines academic excellence with values-based leadership training.
“I am grateful to the place that raised me and where I was taught to love my fellow man and country,” said the first-place winner, Shalom D. “I will continue to work in the automotive field out of my desire to contribute to the State of Israel.”
Shalom is a graduate of AMIT’s Kfar Blatt Youth Village, a surrogate family residence and school that caters to children from disadvantaged or dysfunctional homes and offers them a safe haven in which to learn and grow.
In recognition of their setting a positive example for their peers, Shalom and the other finalists will be going to a professional automotive seminar in Germany next year.
