Electronic Art Concert

ORT Institute of Technology

Electronic Art Concert

Tuesday 8th, September - 20.30hs

Noel Werthein Auditorium

240 Yatay St., ORT Almagro Campus

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.

National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice

The 3rd-year Coordination Department has been carrying out different activities to commemorate the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice. Among them, a meeting with Tatiana Sfiligoy -the first granddaughter found by Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo- was organized. Tatiana told her story and answered the students’ questions.

We would like to share with you a text by Eduardo Galeano, which was read during the activity:

Does history repeat? Or does it repeat as a punishment to those who are incapable of listening to it? There is no dumb history. No matter how much they burn it, or break it, or lie about it, human history refuses to shut up. The right to recall does not appear among the human rights established by the United Nations, but today it is vital to vindicate it and put it into practice: not so as to repeat the past, but to prevent it from repeating; not so that we -who are alive- become ventriloquists of those who are dead, but to be able to speak aloud without being condemned to the perpetual eco of stupidity and disgrace. When the memory is truly alive, it is in the air we breathe, and memory, from the air, breathes us.

Alfredo Zaiat at ORT

On October 20th, ORT Entrepreneurship Center and the Business Administration track of ORT Technical School, invited Alfredo Zaiat -Head of the Economics section of Página/ 12 newspaper and Economic Journalist at Rock & Pop radio- to give a talk on our country’s present economic situation, its relationship with the international financial crisis, and the dilemmas and possible risks that may arise in the future.

Students of the Business Administration track attended the conference. In the classroom, they had been working with contents related to the present crisis. Parents and graduates participated as well and everybody found this activity very interesting.

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Workshop

On August 15th, ORT Technical School students attended a workshop on CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation). The activity was carried out at the Sheraton Hotel within the framework of the National Congress of Anesthesiology.

E-Marketing

On July 23rd, there will be a lecture on “E-Marketing” for 6th-year students from the ICT and Business Administration tracks at ORT Belgrano campus.

The conference will focus on the possibilities the web offers for the creation of new business and marketing online, and it will also analyze how the future of advertising will change.

Nicolás Berman (ORT graduate) and Daniel Rabinovich (MercadoLibre.com CTO) will be in charge of the conference.

Swimming Tournament

On Friday 27th, the 2nd Youth Swimming League was carried out at ORT Belgrano swimming pool. More than 150 students from 7 schools participated. The team that represented our school had an outstanding performance from the beginning of the tournament, and got the second position on the general score board.

Some of the results were as follows:

* Eric Goldenberg: gold medal in 25m butterfly and silver medal in 50m freestyle.

* Camila Rivilli: silver medal in 25m breaststroke.

* Martina Cendoya: bronze medal in 25m breaststroke.

* Ariel Sapollnik: bronze medal in 50m freestyle.

* Alba Sanchez: bronze medal in 50m freestyle.

* Galit Mautner: bronze medal in 50m freestyle.

* Florencia Rozenblum, Martina Seco, Camila Rivilli and Martina Cendoya: silver medal in 4 x 50m freestyle relay take-over.

* Demián Kuznetch, Matías Lopez, Ariel Sapollnik and Eric Goldenberg: silver medal in 4 x 50m freestyle relay take-over.

* Galit Mautner, Alba Sanchez, Tamara Ramos and Lara Cendoya: silver medal in 4 x 50m combined relay take-over.

* Tomás Aldanondo, Lucio Notrica, Alan Kronik and Gabriel Mendelson: bronze medal in 4 x 50m freestyle relay take-over.

* Sebastián Quiroga, Nicolás Ponieman, Nicolás Amaro and Maximiliano Einhorn: bronze medal in 4 x 50m freestyle relay take-over.

ORT at “Kontrast Concept”

From June 12th to 16th, ORT Entrepreneurship Center participated in “Kontrast Concept” - an exhibition which was carried out at Costa Salguero.

ORT Design Center presented design entrepreneurial works at its stand: EMO Estudio, MEG and Fermin Carrera were invited to take part in this experience, after being chosen among many graduate entrepreneurs from our design courses of study.

There’s more information at http://cdort.blogspot.com/

Physics Conference: Weather Forecasting, Science or Guesswork?

Today morning, ORT Almagro students participated in the Physics conference “Weather Forecasting, Science or Guesswork?” by Andrea Celeste Saulo. The speaker talked about some aspects of weather forecasting: how the basic meteorological information is obtained, the laws of Physics which explain the atmosphere behavior and its evolution, and the interpretation of the results obtained by solving various equations.

CEO – Presentation of MercadoLibre

Within the framework of “Talking with Experts”, ORT Entrepreneurship Center (“CEO”) invites you to participate in this activity with MercadoLibre -the business Internet platform, which is present in 12 Latin American countries and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

On this occasion, ORT ICT and IT students will have the chance to learn how this company was created and how it works at present. The speaker will be Martín Gallone, Marketing Manager at MercadoLibre.

Venue:
November 15th at 10 am
Río Auditorium, Almagro campus

New Technologies on Sound Processing and Distribution

The Musical Production track and ORT Entrepreneurship Center (“CEO”) have organized a meeting, where important companies of the Sound Technology will present the latest advances in the discipline.

Issues related to the use of IP Protocols for the transmission of sound will be dealt with. This activity targets students from the Musical Production track and the Mass Media track, and it will be held on November 14th at Noel Werthein Auditotium (Almagro campus) at 11 am.

To participate, send an e-mail to ceo@ort.edu.ar

CA-ORT Alliance

CA–ORT Alliance

During this meeting, ORT students will get information on the program and on IT security.

CA (one of the leading companies in IT management software) and ORT Argentina, through its Entrepreneurship Center (“CEO”), present the Academic Alliance Program, which will provide training to high-school students and teachers of the Institution. This program will introduce students to state-of-the-art tools of the IT Security field.

Through this program students will get in contact with the professional environment and will acquire knowledge to stand out in a labor market, which is more and more competitive, like the IT market. This activity targets Electronics, IT and ICT students.

Venue:

Friday 2nd, November 2007

From 9.30 am to 10.30 am

Montañeses Hall- Belgrano Campus

Face to Face with Entrepreneurs

ORTArt 2007

On October 26th, the 11th Art Festival -“ORTArt”- was carried out at Almagro campus. A lot of students were able to make exhibitions or enjoy the many different artistic expressions there were, such as music, dance, theatre, drawing, painting, and literature (among others). As usual, the Musical Production track, and its students of course, organized the event. We invite you to visit the blog: blog del encuentro.

MINUBA 2007

MINUBA -the International Model of the United Nations in Buenos Aires- was in session during October. More than 90 delegations of students from different national and international institutions participated. There were also 3 delegations from ORT School, Almagro campus, whose students will be the authorities of the 11th ORT Model of the United Nations.

Some students obtained distinctions for their performance at the Delegations they represented: Matías Andina, Leonel Stermann, Yair Litman, Eitan Rozenszajn, Eitan Dobzewicz and Tamara Broitman (Chemistry); Constanza Butler and Micaela Kraushaar (Constructions); Gastón Hilú, Sharon Gluschnaider and Charise Yudewitz (Business Administration); Piero Liebman, Tomás Ramos and Ary Szpic (Electronics); and Dan Mecikovsky and Irina Nabel (Musical Production).

Swimming Tournament

Within the framework of the recreational activities organized during the year by the Physical Education area, a swimming tournament was carried out on October 18th at Almagro campus. 160 students from 1st and 2nd year took part in the competition.

After the sports activities, the giving of awards took place and the students shared lunch with their teachers at the school cafeteria.

Face to Face with Entrepreneurs

The participants will have the chance to meet 2 successful ORT graduates. They will tell us about their experience as entrepreneurs.

Jonathan Altszul
Co-founder of Core Security Technologies. Co-founder and Managing Director of Aconcagua Ventures.
Jonathan is a graduate student from the Electronicks track, and continued his studies at the Buenos Aires University (UBA). In 2000, he was chosen the Entrepreneur of the Year by Endeavor Global, Inc.

Gustavo Stekolschik
Co-founder of Perfectos Dragones, a design company. Gustavo is a graduate student from the Mass Media track (both from ORT High School and from ORT Institute of Technology). He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as an Industrial Designer.
Perfectos Dragones is a well-recognized company in the design sector, and has enxhibited its products at the MOMA Store of NY.

Venue:
Wednesday 31st, October 2007
From 9.20 am to 10.30 am
Montañeses Hall
Belgrano Campus

United Nations Model

During this month, the students from ORT Belgrano campus have participated in 2 simulation Models of the United Nations, organized by MINU association.

The International Model of the United Nations was carried out on October 8th, 9th and 10th, 2007 (MINUBA 2007)

Our students obtained the following mentions:

• Delegation of the United States, General Assembly 1 (GA1): Martín Gendler (6th year, Mass Media), Ariel Zajac (6th year, ICT).
• Delegation of the United States, Ambassadors Summit: Jonathan Mulki (6th year, Mass Media).

The United Nations Model on HIV/ AIDS 2007 (MINU-Huesped Foundation) was carried out on October 23rd and 24th.

Our students obtained the following mentions:

• Delegation of Zimbabwe: Martín Gendler (6th year, Mass Media), Milton Ramos (6th year, ICT), and Ariel Zajac (6th year, ICT).