How high can you fly? As high as your dreams take you. That was the message that students at AMIT Shachar Junior and Senior High School recently got from Aisha Bowe, the American aeronautical engineer and the founder and CEO of technology company, STEMBoard, who told them to reach for the stars.
V., who is currently serving in the IDF’s elite Duvdevan commando unit, credits his recently becoming an officer in the army to a meeting he had in 12th grade while at Yeshivat AMIT Eliraz in Petach Tikva.
About 200 of the top physics students from AMIT schools took part recently in a reshet-wide physics Olympiad held at the Gogya teacher-trainer in center in Ra’anana.
For the second year in a row, students from the AMIT girl’s high school in Maaleh Adumim were selected to participate in a unique program called “Mind the Gap” whose purpose is to help girls advance in computer and science-based tracks and to ultimately increase the number of women working in the professional industry.
The AMIT students studying at The Lewis and Wolkoff Preparatory Army Program are gaining hands-on work experience alongside mentors at the leading car import companies in Israel and are learning how to work with manufacturers and customers in English.
Tzipi Nir, Director of the Dance and Movement track at Midreshet AMIT Arts and Sciences High School for Girls in Modi’in was awarded the Uri Orbach National Prize for Jewish Culture by the Israel Minister of Education at a ceremony held at the Jerusalem Theater.
AMIT students turned their school into a factory, preparing over 300 packages to needy families for the holidays.
AMIT Sutker Arts and Sciences High School for Boys Modiin 11th grade students took the initiative to fundraise for scholarships to enable their fellow classmates in need to participate in a meaningful heritage trip to Poland through selling arba minim (the four species) for the Sukkot holiday.
In preparation for the upcoming Sukkot holiday, AMIT students across the country help build sukkahs for those in need of assistance.
From Yerucham to Space: Yehonatan Amar, an 11th grade student at AMIT Belevav Shalem Yeshiva High School in Yerucham, was chosen to present the Tevel Project (a Hebrew acronym for Students Building Satellites) at a science convention held at Tel Aviv University in front of Ofir Akunis, the Israel Minister of Science, Technology and Space.
