A Hanukkah Hackathon Aims To Thwart Deadly Menorah Fires
AMIT students in Modi’in held a Hanukkah-related hackathon this week in an effort to prevent house fires caused by menorahs.
AMIT Students Learning To Become Cyber Warriors
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.
An Inspiring Mission To Israel For AMIT’s New Associate Regional Directors
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.
AMIT Opens Entrepreneurship Incubator To Expose Students To High-Tech World
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.”
AMIT Students Light The Way To Poland For Their Friends
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.
AMIT Students Head To Technion For Tech Women Conference
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.
Robotics Students Get Pro Tips From Israel’s Space Agency Head
Students from the AMIT Gwen Straus school for boys recently met with Avi Blasberger, director general of the Israel Space Agency, to get his feedback on their research project for a national robotics competition.
Google Training AMIT Students For A Future In High-Tech
AMIT students from several schools were chosen to take part in a special program with Google Israel called “Mind the Gap,” which aims to encourage young women to develop an interest in computer science and increase the number of women in the tech industry.
AMIT Entrepreneurs Get “Charged Up” At Visit To Powermat
Ninth-grade students at AMIT Gwen Straus who are taking part in a unique entrepreneurship program went on a tour of the Powermat Technologies offices this week, where they met with CEO Elad Dubzinski and learned about wireless charging solutions.
Beach Boys: High-Schoolers’ Startup Aims To Develop Wrist Band For Water Safety
By Shoshanna Solomon, Times of Israel
A team of 16- and 17-year-olds at an AMIT Yeshiva High School in the outskirts of Jerusalem has set up a startup company to develop a wrist band that aims to help keep beach-goers safe from drowning.