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Planting Seeds with Savlanut (Patience) on Tu BiShvat
Tu BiShvat is also a holiday about Savlanut (patience), one of our core Sci-Tech values. When you plant an apple tree you don’t immediately have apples in your backyard and when spring comes our gardens aren’t immediately filled with blossoming flowers.
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All Hands on Deck: TECH Talks Session 3
Our workshop instructors transform the hockey rink into a showroom of the discoveries and creations from each workshop. Take a look around the rink and you'll see a mini doctor's office set up for biozone, a ring for our robots, tables of laptops showing off the video games and programs, microscopes to examine the organisms in our water, chemistry experiments bubbling over, and 3D animations projected on the glass.
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Tallit: A Symbol of Unity Among Our URJ Camps
This week, our sister URJ Camp, Camp Coleman in Georgia sent us a tallit, a shawl with four fringes that we wear to remind us of the mizvot that God commanded. It was made in a chug with the intention that this tallit celebrates caring, compassion, healing and love. A tallit just like this was made for each of our URJ camps in memory of those who were killed in the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida.
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Savlanut (Patience) in Animation
This Shabbat, our campers demonstrated their patience (savlanut) through stop motion animations. Stop motion animation takes a lot of patience as it requires many individually photographed frames being pieced together.
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Sci-Tech Means To Me…
At the end of each session, one camper from every hall shares what Sci-Tech means to them. It is a special moment to hear how each camper has grown throughout their time at Sci-Tech and how each hall has come together as a community.
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7 Reasons to Travel to Israel
Check out 7 reasons why you should travel to Israel from Sci-Tech Israel participant Morgan Gitlitz.
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A Fun and New View About The Differences We’ve Noticed So Far in Israel!
Check out what Sci-Tech Israel participants Emily and Paige have noticed about Israel so far.
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Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial outside of Jerusalem, tells a story of the Jewish people and their persecution. On July 6th, through original artifacts, survivor interviews, and expert tour guides, the Sci-Tech Israel teens learned about the Holocaust through stories and faces.
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Finding Opportunity in Challenges
"Many times you'll hear, 'This can not be done.' When you hear that, you must go and try it."
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