The Gildor Family Projects and Inventions Competition was launched in 2000 by the Israel Center for Excelllence through Education. The US became involved several years ago through the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education funded by the Gruss Foundation. Each year an engineering project is announced in October. Students work all year to research, design, develop and test their solution to the problem. This year, the problem was to develop a device to keep birds away from airfields and agricultural fields. Also sponsoring the competition this yuear was the International Center for Bird Migration Research at Latrun and the Israeli Air Force. Winners of the semi-finals go to Israel for the Finals at the end of June.We are very proud of the solution, pictured above, designed by our 9th grade North Shore Hebrew Academy Scientific Research class. Team work, electrical circuits, systems, programming, writing scientific papers are just a few of the skills learned by this year's class. Although our team did not win, their performance was superb and both Mr. Sachs and Mrs. Serfaty are extremely proud of their accomplishment.
Written by Mrs. Phyllis Serfaty
No comments:
Post a Comment