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(Continued from page 5) Mr. William Roper recently joined Ma’ayanot’s college guidance department. He holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from Kutztown State College, an M.S. in School Administration and Supervision from Seton Hall University, and an M.S. in Student Personnel Services from Montclair State University. Prior to joining the Ma’ayanot faculty, Mr. Roper worked for several years as a college guidance counselor at The Frisch School, and for over thirty years as a guidance counselor at Ridgewood High School and George Washington Middle School. He also served for many years as Summer School Principal for Ridgewood High School. Ms. Raquel Getzel will be teaching a 10th grade American Sign Language elective. She completed her undergraduate work at the Institute of Technology in Venezuela, and acquired her knowledge of American Sign Language by studying for three years at the Sign Language Center in New York City. “This year, several elective courses at Ma'ayanot will be offered in a distance learning format, provided by a program called Bonim B'Yachad. We are excited to launch this program at Ma'ayanot, as it expands our ability to offer specialized elective courses to our students. “ -Mrs. Rivka Kahan, Principal To learn more, visit bonimbyachad.com Modi'in Elite. “The Stream“ August 30, 2013/24 Elul 5773 Our “Freshman Faculty” Teachers in our distance learning program, which will include courses in American Sign language, Architecture, French and Precalculus are: Ms. Sharon Bodzin will be teaching a 10th grade American Sign Language elective. Ms. Bodzin has a B.A. from Queens College and an M.A. in Chemistry from New York University. She has been fluent in sign language since she was in high school. In college, she worked as the RA for a campus dorm that served hearingimpaired students and served as a translator for several professors. Once Ms. Bodzin started her professional career, she continued to serve as a teacher and resource for ASL. She has taught several courses to both children and adults in various formal and informal settings, including the Lman Achai Girls school in Ms. Terri Millstone will be teaching a 10th grade French I elective. Ms. Millstone's professional background is in teaching second languages; she is fluent in French, German, and Hebrew. Originally from Toronto, she received her B.A. in linguistics from McGill University. She taught languages at the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva and in other schools in Toronto. Since making Aliyah ten years ago, Ms. Millstone has been involved with the Alexander Muss High School as both an administrator and teacher, as well as teaching through Bonim B'Yachad. Ms. Bonnie Singer will teach a Precalculus elective in 12th grade. Ms. Singer attended Queens College and New York University, and taught math in the New York City public school system before making aliyah. Upon moving to Israel, she earned her Israeli teaching certificate and spent seven years teaching high school math in the Israeli school system. About seven years ago, Ms. Singerreturned to teaching American students and became head of the math department at the NFTY EIE school, based in Israel. Ms. Tamar Apper will be teaching an Architecture elective. She currently lives in Haifa, and recently completed her study of architecture at the Technion. She has taught in traditional and online settings and looks forward to teaching at Ma'ayanot. 6
“The Stream“ August 30, 2013/24 Elul 5773 Our Science Research Class Triumps at Gildor Competition -as reported by Mr. Noam Weinberger, Teacher of our Prize-Winning Science Research Class Our Science Research Team earned the opportunity to travel to Israel for the finals of the Gildor Competition by taking first place in the national competition on May 7 of this year, when we went up against Bruriah, SKA, RTMA, Yeshiva Darchei Torah and Frisch at Yeshiva of Central Queens. We left for the finals, held in Yerushalayim, on June 23 and returned triumphant on June 27, with the actual competition taking place June 27. The competition was very interesting and a lot of fun. The eight students and Ms. F. used the dormitories at Midreshet Lindenbaum as home base. From left to right are Ms. Elana Flaumenhaft, one of the Gildor judges, Mrs. Noam Weinberger, Chaya Levin, Tova Sklar, Devorah Saffern, Sarah Weinberg, Ahuva Shafier, Sarah Hiller, Liat Clark and Kira Paley 7 The Israel-based contest, formally called the “Gildor Family Projects and Inventions Competition” invites students to “meet the challenge of using creativity and knowledge to develop a unique scientific and technological project” which can solve a problem of worldwide scope. To visit this program’s website, click here. While in Jerusalem, we went to the shuk in Machane Yehuda and to Ben Yehuda Rtreet for shopping and food, and we made several trips to the Kotel. We were in Yerushalayim for Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, on which we took a guided tour of Yad Vashem. “Our trip to Israel was really great! We got to go to the Kotel and Yad Vashem. At the contest, different judges came to see our project and to ask us questions (in English) about our project and how it works. They were really nice, and were interested to hear what we had to say and what we learned.” -Devorah Saffern This was the final round of the competition, in which only five schools competed. We were the only remaining team from outside Israel. We took apart our entire working model in America, including model trains, tracks, power sources, electromagnets, tools, wires, spare parts, etc., and packed it all and took it with Our Science Research Team: Liat Clark ‘15 Sarah Hiller ‘15 Chaya Levin (now attending another school) Devorah Saffern ‘15 Ahuva Shafier ‘15 Tova Sklar ‘15 Sarah Weinberg ‘15 Kira Paley ‘15 Ms. F., at rear, watches as students assemble their prize-winning model us. (We found a note in the bag upon arrival informing us that security had opened it for inspection.) We rebuilt our entire system at the school in Jerusalem (the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy). At the competition, there were several groups of judges who moved (Continued on page 8)
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