Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Another Night Of Achievement In Science

On Tuesday night, Jon Weinreich was recognized as STANYS Senior Science Student of the year at a dinner attended by all science faculty at the Coral House.  Meanwhile, Daniel Goldsmith was being awarded Honors at Long Island Science Congress where he received the prize for Best Physics Project and a $300 bond. Congratulations to both.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

9th Grade Scientific Research Class Delivers Superb Performance at Gildor Competition

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

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

NSHAHS March of the Living Students Featured on News 12

News 12:  Students of the North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck aren't simply learning about the Holocaust through textbooks and black-and-white photographs. They got to see one of the most notorious spots in Hebrew history firsthand.  Click above to watch the News 12 video, and read more from News 12's Journey of Remembrence Series here.