space – AMIT

Students From Two AMIT Schools Build Working Satellites

NewsBy AMIT Children August 5, 2021

After three years of hard work, a project in software engineering in both AMIT B’levav Shalem Yeshiva High School, Yerucham, and Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel, has successfully produced two nanosatellites. Project TEVEL allows students to build working satellites that are then launched into space. An exciting graduation ceremony was held this week in Netanya in the presence of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen, and the director of the Israeli Space Agency, Avi Blasberger.

AMIT Students Host Famous NASA Members for Space Week

NewsBy AMIT Children March 22, 2020

To mark Israeli Space Week, Ulpanat AMIT Givat Shmuel students hosted astronaut and pilot Eric Boe, former NASA administrator Charles Bolden and hundreds of students from around the country who are taking part in a special satellite-building program.

Shoot for the moon: Three AMIT Schools Get to Ramon Foundation’s SpaceLab Finals

NewsBy AMIT Children January 28, 2020

Teams from three AMIT schools were over the moon when they recently found out their projects made it to the finals of the Ramon Foundation’s SpaceLab program, which gives students the opportunity to submit a scientific experiment to the International Space Station and have real-life astronauts test it out in space.

The Sky Is The Limit

NewsBy AMIT Children October 10, 2019

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.

From AMIT Students to Counselors Exploring “Space”

NewsBy AMIT Children August 8, 2019

AMIT Yud Ashdod opened a unique “space” summer camp which was developed around the training astronauts undergo. The camp accommodates 60 children, ranging in from 2nd to 8th grade. The campers are involved with a range of activities and sessions including space survival skills and nutrition, space research and workshops for astronaut development including teamwork, robotics, and fitness and exercise sessions conducted in English.

NASA Astronaut Tells AMIT Modi’in Girls To Reach For The Stars

NewsBy AMIT Children February 14, 2019

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.

Yerucham Students Set Their Sights On Space

NewsBy AMIT Children January 4, 2019

Students from Yeshivat AMIT B’Levav Shalem are taking part in an exciting project in which they will build a three-dimensional micro-satellite, program it, and, ultimately, launch it into space.