Rikudim Solidarity Festival

Thursday 10th, September
20.30hs - 240 Yatay St.

ExpoUniversity at ORT Belgrano

On September 15th, within the framework of the school’s vocational and occupational guidance program for senior high-school students, ExpoUniversity will take place.

The students will walk around the stands placed in Montañeses hall, and they will get informative talks and flyers with information of the various courses of study each university offers.

The most prestigious universities and colleges will be present, among which we could mention: Palermo University, Belgrano, UADE, Di Tella, CAECE, San Andres, UCES, UCEMA, University of Buenos Aires (there is a meeting scheduled for Wednesday 16th), ITBA and ORT Institutes of Technology.

Shakespear at ORT

Invited by ORT Belgrano Institute of Technology and its Design Center, Ronald Shakespear gave a conference on Wednesday 26th, August, called “Half a Century of Design”. He introduced his last book “Design Sign – Memory of Practice” during the activity. He exhibited a show reel of his graphic work and told anecdotal stories about his professional and academic career in the design world.

During the event, ORT Argentina’s President, Dr. Héctor Rosenzvit, and the 1st Vice President, Architect Darío Jaraj, gave the designer Ronald Shakespear the “ORT Friend” distinction.

The Academic Director of the Institution, Prof. Silvia Mora, ORT Institute authorities, teachers and students from the first ORT post degree in Packaging participated. 6th-year students from the Advertising track of the Raggio Technical School also attended.

Workshop on Entrepreneurship Management for Visually and Hearing-Impaired People

Today, students and teachers from the Business Administration track, Belgrano campus, have initiated a workshop on Entrepreneurship Management for visually and hearing-impaired people.

The project is carried out along with AUDELA, a non-profit civil association, which develops programmes to raise awareness and promote social integration of people with disabilities.

The workshop will take 6 weeks, and it will include contents on accounting, marketing, human resources and law among others. The classes will be delivered by teachers and students of the track with teaching materials developed in the school.

Successful Presentation of Profundar 2009

Last Tuesday 18th, the Argentine-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ORT Entrepreneurship Centre and ORT Graduates’ Centre -on behalf of ORT Argentina- introduced the first day of “Profundar 2009”. The aim of the activity was to provide entrepreneurs and SMEs with the necessary tools and information to carry out their projects in a simple, quick and efficient way.

At the opening ceremony there was Horacio Roura, who is in charge of the Undersecretary of Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Development; Roland Schäfer, Minister of the German Embassy in Buenos Aires; Dr. Thomas Leonhardt, Vice President of the Argentine-German Chamber; and Mr. Pablo Taraciuk, member of ORT Argentina’s Board of Directors. All of them agreed on the importance of carrying out an event with these characteristics, whose objectives are oriented towards sustaining SMEs and entrepreneurs’ projects.

The activity was divided into two sections: entrepreneurs and SMEs to be able to focus on each area’s needs.

“HP Innovation in Education” Grant

In August, Hewlett Packard gave ORT Technical Schools an award for winning the “HP Innovation in Education” grant. The winning project incorporated the new educational technologies to improve the teaching and learning of Mathematics, and it was developed by the Teaching & Learning Resources Centre (“CREA”), along with the Mathematics Department and Technological Education Area.

The award consists of an HP Mobile Digital Classroom (estimated in U$S 70,000), which contains resources such as Mini Note PCs, Digital Boards and Tablet PCs.

This new computing equipment will be incorporated into the classrooms and laboratories in September, thus increasing the amount and variety of technological resources with which our students will learn, and contributing to the continuous improvement of the educational quality of our institution.

It is important to stand out that this is the 2nd time that Hewlett Packard grants such an award to our institution. In July 2007, ORT Technical Schools obtained the “Technology for Teaching Higher Education” grant, thanks to a project developed by the CREA and the Technological Education Area. The grant enabled the implementation of an educational research project based on the application of mobile technologies to the classrooms. 30 teachers and more than 1600 students are involved in this project, which will continue till the end of 2009.

ORT Students at the International Olympiads in Informatics

Every year, the best young programmers of the world meet at the International Olympiads in Informatics. This year, the 21st International Olympiads in Informatics is carried out in Bulgaria from August 8th to 15th.

The Argentine team is composed by Lucas Tavolaro (student from the Electronics track), Joaquín Fixman (from the ICT track), and Nicolás Ponieman (graduate student from ICT track). We’ll follow up the development of the contest at this blog.

Solidarity Campaigns 2009

Solidarity Campaigns 2009
From August 10th to 21st - Ceibo Project

Sneakers
for the school in Villaguay we support

Kitchen Paper Towel Roll
for the Dafne Natalí Flexer Foundation