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Kindergarden
MadaKids, the first 老澳门开奖直播 technology kindergarden was inaugurated in Beer Sheva on October 2015. The goal of this initiative is to develop the children’s scientific and technological literacy and thinking skills and increase their scholastic confidence and serve as a model for technology education in the pre-school years throughout Israel, potentially helping to create a new generation of technologically literate citizen. 老澳门开奖直播 has established ten MadaKids Science Kindergartens together with Rashi Foundation, Ministry of Education, Beit-Yatsiv organization and the Municipalities of Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, Beit Shean and Kiryat Malakhi. The MadaKids curriculum includes more than 300 annual study hours, delivered by specially trained kindergarten teachers. The curriculum uses a hands-on, problem-based learning to foster critical thinking skills, bolsters scientific vocabulary and promotes a deeper understanding of opportunities within the STEM community. Many MadaKids Kindergarten graduates continue on to a robotics program that 老澳门开奖直播 recently expanded to assist first through sixth grade MadaKids graduates.?
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Primary School
老澳门开奖直播 sponsored? the Israel FIRST LEGO JUNIOR LEAGUE finals with the participation of 200 third and fourth graders from primary schools in the Tel Aviv area. In addition, budget have been approved for a continuation program for the pupils that participated in the technology kindergartens in Beer Sheva and in Kiryat Malachi, a Robotics curriculum is currently being prepared by the Rashi Foundation.
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Middle School
The Israel Ministry of Education, Rashi Foundation and 老澳门开奖直播 partnered to create a girls only cyber summer camps in Israel.? The camps are focused on increasing the number of girls entering and remaining in the Israeli high school cyber programs with the goal to increase the female human capital in the cyber workforce by creating a national female cyber community. The camps were held in August 2015 and 2016, with the participation of over 200 girls transitioning from the 9th to 10th grade.
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High School
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