NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus paid a special visit to AMIT Midreshet Art and Sciences Jr. and Sr. High School for Girls last week, meeting with the school’s robotics teams, both of which recently advanced to the national round of the FIRST LEGO League competition.
When a new cyber program was introduced in the middle of last year, the students at AMIT Technological High School in Ashdod were pretty surprised. They hadn’t heard much about it and didn’t know what exactly it entailed, but it sounded intriguing.
Ira Kellman has fond childhood memories of joining his grandmother at the Yiddish theater when they held benefits for Mizrachi Women of America, the organization known today as AMIT.
Young entrepreneurs from AMIT Wasserman Torah, Arts and Sciences Jr. and Sr. High School for Girls recently took part in a course on product development and marketing and presented their ideas for startups at an event in Tel Aviv— the capital of startup nation.
AMIT Gould Hallel Jr. and Sr. High School for Girls joins four other AMIT schools that have advanced to the national round of the FIRST LEGO League competition after excelling at the regional stage.
Special needs students from Yeshivat AMIT Kfar Ganim recently took part in a mountain bike race with hundreds of other students from across Israel. They faced challenging trails and weather conditions and demonstrated their determination and resilience throughout the competition.
Special needs students from Yeshivat AMIT Kfar Ganim swept the first ever Olympics for children with impaired communication skills, which included children on the autism spectrum from eight different schools.
Successfully including students of all abilities in Jewish education can seem overwhelming for a school that has not previously made accommodations or offered opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
By Amnon Eldar, director general of the AMIT network
The AMIT network of schools has been at the top of educational achievements on a nationwide scale recently. This summer, AMIT was ranked the educational network with the highest achievements, according to the indexes set by the Education Ministry.
As part of the AMIT network’s efforts to get students to think creatively and take on academic challenges, it introduced a network-wide physics Olympiad several years ago, and recently crowned the winners of the 2018-2019 school year.
