From #BackToByfield to Returning Back Home

From #BackToByfield to Returning Back Home

We still can’t believe that Summer 2021 has already come and gone. Tonight is the first Shabbat In 8 weeks that our sanctuary spaces aren’t full of campers, staff, and faculty singing our favorite camp tunes. We will miss seeing the orange sunsets as we head into...
Chugim at Sci-Tech

Chugim at Sci-Tech

As the summer comes to a close, we’re looking forward to celebrating Shabbat one last time together tonight as well as wrapping up our final set of Chugim! Chugim are four-day electives led by the counselors ranging in a variety of topics from balloon art to...
Meet the Staff: Rocketry and Drones

Meet the Staff: Rocketry and Drones

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the rockets and drones from our chugim! Meet the rocketry Instructors, Neta and Zach, and Drone Instructors, Neta and Ezri, and watch this video to learn about two of our chugim offered this summer!
Gesher Tzar M’od: The World is a Narrow Bridge

Gesher Tzar M’od: The World is a Narrow Bridge

This blog is written by Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling, Session 3 Faculty. The campers are slapping their legs, making sounds resembling rolling thunder, while intoning: “kol haolam kulo….” Gesher T’zar M’od is a popular Hebrew song, drawn from a text by the Hasidic...
Kavod: the building block of camp

Kavod: the building block of camp

This blog is written by Leah Finkelman, Session 3 Faculty. As one of our five Core Values, kavod (respect) is infused into everything we do at Sci-Tech. At the start of every session, every dorm and workshop creates a brit, or covenant. Rather than simply being a list...
Savlanut: A tale of two workshops

Savlanut: A tale of two workshops

For Day Two of our Sci-Tech Values Olympic Games, we’re throwing it back to 2014 for the origin story of our Core Value, Savlanut…  Sci-Tech’s Pioneer Summer of 2014 looked very different from the Sci-Tech we recognize today. There were only four workshops...