NSHA HS College Bowl Team Goes Undefeated

North Shore Hebrew Academy High School's College bowl team started off the season with a bang. Both the Varsity and Junior Varsity went undefeated at the season's first competition held on November 7th. The competition was between other Long Island yeshivot and it took place at Temple Beth Sholom in Lawrence. The next competition will be in February.

NSHAHS Varsity Basketball Team Receives High Honors at Cooper Invitational

The North Shore Hebrew Academy High School Varsity basketball team went to Memphis last week for the Cooper Invitational Basketball Tournament. They did very well in the tournament, starting out in fourth seed. They played very difficult teams from across the nation and made it all the way to the championship game against Yula High School where they finished in 2nd place out of 16 teams! Congratulations!!

In addition, 3 of the team's players won individual awards.

• Junior Ryan Paul won the Three Point Shootout
• Senior Josh Cohen won the All Star Award
• Junior Cody Cohen won the All-Tournament Players Award

Congratulations to these students and the entire team! 

Students visit NSHA alumnus and Google Docs founder at Google Headquarters in New York

On October 22, ten juniors and seniors who are interested in technology and engineering had the unique opportunity to visit Google headquarters in New York City. Located in one of the largest buildings in the city, a full city block, Google has one of the coolest offices around. From the minute you walk in, you are wowed by lights and décor, a multi-screen wall that displays a live feed of worldwide Google searches and scooters and food at every turn. Each area has its own unique theme including old NYC subway cars, private library study spaces and Lego. The Lego area even has it's own lego play space for creative thinking. And, that is the motivation behind the design - to inspire engineers to think outside the box and be constantly innovating.


Students were invited to visit and receive a tour by Micah Lemonik. Micah is a graduate of North Shore Hebrew Academy, a resident of Great Neck and an entrepreneur. After graduating from Columbia University, Micah started a small company developing software. Four years later, Google acquired the company for the product now known as Google Docs (or Google Drive). Ten years later, Micah is now a senior staff software engineer managing over 250 staff engineers in New York.
Highlights from the tour provided by Micah included the Google Earth display, a 270 degree panel of screens with a trackball that lets you navigate throughout the earth, atmosphere and oceans; the lego play space; the ladder connecting two floors (for employees only); the "mini"-kitchens that provide snacks and beverages every few feet (Kosher too); the game area with foosball, air hockey and other recreational items; the whiteboards with notes everywhere and various themed spaces. After the tour, Micah gave the students an overview of what he does at Google, how he got started and some advice about careers in engineering. Finally, we convened over pizza in the Google cafeteria. It was a fantastic trip that was enjoyed by all.

We are so excited to also welcome Micah Lemonik to our school on Monday, November 4 to speak to our Shark Tank club and kick off our year. He will speak about entrepreneurship, his experiences and advice for students.

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NSHA High School Students Take First Place at the GLOBE Virtual Conference

Students from North Shore Hebrew Academy High School took first place in the North American Region for their "Disappearing Pond Project". The winners were announced over the summer and Gerard Wykes, faculty advisor, noted that he was very proud of the students for all of their effort.

As per the GLOBE Project website, one of the most exciting aspects of The GLOBE Program is the ability for students to perform scientific research. The 2013 GLOBE Virtual Student Conference, took place from May 6-31, 2013 and provided a place for GLOBE students of all grade levels to showcase the research they have been performing.  58 projects from 4 countries (Argentina, Madagascar, Thailand and the United States) were submitted to the conference. 

GLOBE provides students with a more integrated view of the various subjects they study and supports curricula interconnections in all areas.

Student research projects could cover topics in areas such as the atmosphere, hydrology, soil and more, and also needed to make use of GLOBE data. Projects would be judged based on the use of that data, creativity, scientific thought, thoroughness, knowledge achieved and clarity. Submissions could be in the form of a Powerpoint, video or other output method.

This accomplishment is particularly meaningful to North Shore Hebrew Academy because the investigation is so close to home. On a routine GLOBE monitoring day our Environmental Science students noticed that the shoreline of the pond, that NSHAHS was built around, had receded significantly from fall of 2011 to spring of 2012. Their alarm was communicated to the department chair who noted that the pond in fact had been receding for the past 4 years. The Pond is essentially a catch basin for large volumes of run-off with little recourse. Student investigated the impact this would have on the school and surrounding area.

Congratulations to Gerard Wykes and the students of NSHAHS! 

Samantha Blady

Ariella Borochov

Ali Paul

Samuel Abayev

Kevin Baum

Judd Eisenberg

Shanee Bareli

Josh Ashkenazy

Daniel Rosenn

Welcome Back to School

Yesterday students returned to school after summer vacation. We are happy to welcome back returning students and welcome to our community a dozen transfer students and over 125 freshmen! Everyone was already getting into the swing as classes resumed.

Congratulations Class of 2013!

Congratulations to our CLASS OF 2013 graduates!  Check out the North Shore Facebook page for some photo highlights, and relive the final moments of last night's ceremony with the video below!