AMIT Students Get Creative With Robotics
The robotics team from AMIT Netivot Dror Yeshiva High School came in first place for creative thinking at the YTEK competition for math, space, and robotics held last week.
AMIT Eitan Students Create Purim Magic
AMIT students created a Purim extravaganza for disadvantaged kids in Ma’ale Adumim, ensuring that every child would have a costume for the holiday. You can help make Purim special for at-risk kids in Israel as well by clicking here: www.amitchildren.org/bhypurimparty
Team AMIT Raises $50K For Beit Hayeled At Jerusalem Marathon
More than 400 AMIT students, faculty members, and supporters got an early start to the day and hit the ground running at the Jerusalem Marathon, raising more than $50,000 for AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled, a surrogate family residence serving close to 200 children from difficult and disadvantaged homes.
Instagram Unites AMIT Students With Secular, Arab Peers
Students from Yeshivat AMIT Eliraz in Petach Tikva are taking part in a pilot program aimed at bringing together students from different backgrounds and promoting acceptance and diversity through the positive use of social media.
100 AMIT Students Attend Prestigious Biomed Conference
One hundred young men and women from AMIT schools in northern Israel recently attended the Israel Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (ISMBE) conference, which brings together researchers, engineers, and physicians from the academy, hospitals, industry, and investors.
AMIT Elaine Silver Helped Malka Turn Her Life Around
Malka Trunach recently completed the last three of her 21 bagrut (matriculation) exams and is now studying information and communications technology at an AMIT junior college, both extraordinary achievements for the young woman who dropped out of school from 10th grade until the middle of 12th grade.
2 AMIT Students Advance To Finals Of National Science Competition
Two seniors from the AMIT Evelyn Schreiber Jr. and Sr. High School for Girls advanced to the national round of a competition for young scientists and inventors, which will take place in March at the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem.
The Parent Trap: How To Get Parents On Board With School Changes
by Alanna Kotler
A school community contains several constituencies—parents, faculty, staff, students—and the hope is that they all work together in the interest of each child. I would argue that each feels very strongly that it does. However, when you listen closely to the conversations that happen within each of these groups, there can be a gap between what is happening in schools and what each thinks is happening.
AMIT Student Selected For Prestigious Engineering Program
Hila Ben Michael, an 11th-grade student at AMIT Yud Ashdod Jr. and Sr. High School, was recently selected to take part in a prestigious program aimed at training Israel’s budding engineers.
AMIT Graduates’ Art Displayed In Jerusalem Museum
Two AMIT graduates have been chosen to exhibit their art at a national exhibition featuring works by students from Israel’s religious school system.