Latin American Olympiads in Physics

The National Minister of Education, Juan Carlos Tedesco, has signed a resolution through which he officially appoints the members of the Argentine team that will participate in the XIII Latin American Olympiads in Physics, which will be carried out from September 27th to October 3rd in the Mexican city of Morelia.

We congratulate Ezequiel Wajs, 6th-year students from the Electronics track, who will represent our country.

ORT Virtual Campus Offers Students Remote Access to their Works

ORT students can use from their homes a new service provided by the Virtual Campus, which is in beta version: the file administrator.

When entering the Campus, students will have access to their personal folders and files stored at the schools’ servers. Students will have to log in at the internal network (usually with their ID number) and their password. Once they have finished this step, they will be able to get to their files through the highlighted icon of the image.

The file administrator contains all the functions that are usually provided by virtual storage servers, such as file uploading and downloading, folder creation, documents previewing, etc. By using this service, students will be able to continue their homework at home or at school without having the need to forward it by e-mail or copy it on a pendrive or a CD. In some weeks, the file administrator will also be available for the students of the Institutes and for all the teachers.

The Virtual Campus aims at improving the services provided to our students, and keeps on working on one of its fundamental ideas which is to “constantly accompany students”, since their works will be permanently at their own disposal, from any computer, cell phone or PDA connected to the Internet.

ORT at 2008 Konex Awards

Yesterday, September 9th, ORT Technical Schools received a Konex Award -“2008 Merit Diploma”- in the field “Educational Institution”. We are the first school that has ever obtained such a prestigious award in recognition of our career path. The event was carried out at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires.

On this occasion, the Grand Jury, presided by Dr. Gregorio Badeni, has chosen the most distinguished 100 personalities and institutions of the last decade from Institutions – Communities – Argentine Companies (1998-2007).

Representing ORT Schools, Mrs. Norma G. de Werthein (Honorary President from ORT Argentina), Architect Darío Jaraj (General Secretary) and Dr. Adrián Moscovich (Executive Director) received the distinction presented by the Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos.

For further information: http://www.fundacionkonex.org/

ORT Belgrano Campus Wants to Know about its Graduates

ORT Belgrano campus is carrying out a sociological research work to learn about its graduates, not only about their academic training after school, but also about their actual job environment. This research is being conducted by the Sociologist Alejandro Schneider. Please, find the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KG_2bgCxdmz_2f02eoJzNxAWZA_3d_3d

Should you have any questions or doubts, please contact Alejandro Schneider from ORT Belgrano campus at 4789-6500 (extension 6429) or email him: aschneid@ort.edu.ar

Congratulations!

ORT Belgrano students, who took part in the Interschool Biology Olympiads on August 13th in levels I and II, were chosen to participate in the National Olympiads, which will take place in Río Cuarto University, Córdoba.

The members of the teams are:

Level I: Greta Ponieman , Cristian Gonzalez and Nicolás Chamo
Level II: Carla Nudel, Ezequiel Genender and Ivan Derechinsky

Congratualtions!

Biology Olympiads

ORT students, who took part in the Interschool Biology Olympiads on August 13th in levels I and II, were chosen to participate in the National Olympiads, which will take place in Río Cuarto University, Córdoba.

Level I: Florencia Herbstein, Johanna Gueler and Karina Glaser

Level II: Sebastian Vishnopolska, Axel Levin and Axel Sirota

We congratulate our students and the teacher, Nancy Ribas.