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This past Shabbos, the talmidim of the MTA Yeshiva Fellowship program convened at the Clinton Inn in Tenafly, New Jersey, for their annual Shabbaton. The Yeshiva Fellowship, a program designed to provide opportunities for additional Torah learning beyond the regular yeshivah schedule, is one of the cornerstones of the MTA experience.

Girls and Boys Torah Bowl Teams March Into Playoffs

The Boys Torah Bowl team finished the regular season with a perfect 12-0 in league competition, after sweeping the competition at Manhattan Day School last week. They enter the playoffs as the number one overall seed in the league.

On Wednesday, February 8, the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach held its sixth annual History Day Fair as part of the larger National History Day Competition. Each year, over half a million students participate in the National History Day competition. The projects examine an event in history and how it relates to a national theme.

This week, the third grade talmidos of Bnos Malka Academy held their annual Rashi Breakfast. After the students completed learning “Rashi Script,” they celebrated the momentous occasion with a special breakfast. The students were privileged to hear Rabbi Meir Gavriel Elbaz speak about Rashi’s background, the significance of learning Rashi and how to do so. It is a skill they will use and value for the rest of their lives.

This past Sunday, the Rambam Robotics team, the Rambots, took on their second qualifier as part of the First Tech Challenge (FTC) Powerplay competition. The competition, announced to teams three months in advance, would entail building a remotely controlled robot that would pick up cones and drop them onto junctions that could be scored for various points. The team greatly enjoyed the process of engineering and coding a machine with such capabilities. They were given free reign of the new Rambam STEM Lab – which they helped design and set up – and all their hard work paid off.

The team played five qualification matches, going 3-2 and finishing in seventh place out of the 22 participating teams, earning a spot in the playoff rounds, where they made it to the top two before losing in the final match!

The team is now qualified for the Long Island FTC Regional Championships, and with the possibility of advancing to the world championship, we wish them the best of luck!

Go Rambots!!

By Menachem Lotwin, Junior

Yeshiva Sha’arei Zion High School for Girls competed in an intense day of problem solving, coding, engineering, and marketing challenges at the CIJE Tech’s annual Hackathon. The competition challenged students to plan a solution to address a problem faced by poverty-stricken villages in Africa. The girls chose to focus on water supply and created two distinct companies: Water Waze and UV Clean.