Beth Hatefutsoth Award

ORT Argentina Technical School, Belgrano campus, has been awarded at the International Competition “Shorashim - My Family Story” organized by the Beth Hatefutsoth (The Diaspora Museum). After an exhaustive revision by the jury, composed of members of the Israeli Ministry of Education, authorities in History of the Diaspora Museum, specialists in Education from the Tel Aviv University, and professionals with long-standing experience in related methodologies, it has been decided that a special distinction will be granted to our school for the excellence of the works submitted.

In the last 10 years, Beth Hatefutsoth got thousands of students to explore their Jewish heritage through the search of their own family story. Thanks to this international competition, high-school students from different schools throughout the world have researched their stories, thus discovering their parents’ and grandparents’ stories and also the strong connection they have with the Jewish People.

We would like to congratulate our 6th-year students Ilán Rubín and Diana Gettner from the Design track, 5th-year Michelle Oppel from the Mass Media track and 6th year student Ezequiel Lindenberg from the ICT track for their outstanding performance.

The Awards Ceremony of the International Competition Manuel Hirsch Grosskopf “My Family Story”, will take place on Wednesday 9th, June 2010, at the Ceremony Hall of the Tel Aviv Diaspora Museum, Beth Hatefutsoth.

Two ORT Argentina Students at the Raya Cowan Summer School in Israel

Iván Derechinsky (ORT Belgrano student) and Melisa Kohan Martínez (ORT Almagro student) were chosen to represent Argentina at the 4th edition of the Raya Cowan Summer School, which will take place next August. Different scientific, cultural and recreational activities will be carried out at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.

Both students were chosen among all the students that attend ORT Argentina Technical Schools by taking into account their background. They took scientific exams, were interviewed via videoconference and succeeded in all these steps.

ORT at the TIC Americas 2010 Finals

The 3D Housing project is a virtual simulator of big real-estate initiatives which was developed by ORT Belgrano campus School students. The project qualified for the TIC Americas 2010 finals among more than 1200 teams from the continent. The Talent and Innovation Competition will be carried out in Lima, Peru, next June 2010 within the framework of the XI Summit of the Americas.

The team constituted by students from the ICT track (Luciano Bertenasco, Pascual Galliverti, Matías Nisenson and Melanie Babour) and the Business Administration track (Alan Kronik, Cindy Russo y Daiana Ganiewich) worked together to apply for a place at the competition under the guidance of the teacher Clara Rujinsky. The selected project was part of the 5th-year school curriculum.

This is an international competition which gives awards to business plans by young entrepreneurs of up to 35 years old. The contest has been developed by the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT), a private-sector organization which cooperates with the General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS).

ORT Technical School will represent Argentina in the ‘Technology’ category and the students will introduce their project in English.

“Our School is the only high-school institution which has participated in the contest. It competed with universities, small and medium size enterprises and training companies from the entire continent. We congratulate all the students who took part in this challenging competition. We feel very proud of them and we wish them all the best for the rest of the contest!” –said ORT Argentina Executive Director, Adrián Moscovich.

For further information on this project, please visit the following website:
http://campus.belgrano.ort.edu.ar/tic/noticia/80546/ort-en-la-final-de-tic-am-ricas-2010

JAIL ORT 2010 – a fascinating trip

This summer, 40 students from ORT Technical Schools travelled to Israel within the framework of the 'Jail' programme. The students were chosen for their outstanding academic performance and were accompanied by the Jewish Education teachers Silvana Sipicki and Pablo Intebi.

Report written by Silvana Sipicki and Pablo Intebi
From the beginning of the adventure, the students established a valuable, solid group, which enabled them to strengthen their bonds and enjoy the experience of growing with others.

They visited cities, museums and historical places, exchanged experiences with Israeli adolescents and learnt about the everyday life of a country full of contrasts and vitality. By touring around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the students saw a young State with a millenial history -two characteristics of this country.

Congratulations to Alan Jais!!!

The International Jewish Film Festival in Argentina will premiere “A PINTALE ID, The Jewish Essence”, the latest documentary by the young Argentine film-maker Alan Jais - graduate student from the Mass Media track at ORT Belgrano campus. The event will take place from November 5th to 11th, 2009, in Buenos Aires. The film will also be premiered at the International JewishEye Festival in Ashkelon, Israel, from October 19th to 27th.

The film focuses on certain aspects of the homonym theatre play by Myrtha Schalom, with adapted texts by Jorge Schussheim, show which was on stage for 3 years at the Ben Ami Auditorium to testify the state of Yiddish and its theatre in Argentina.

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.

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.

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.

Opening of the 2009 School Year– Belgrano Campus

ORT Technical School Principal (Belgrano campus), Viviana Jasid, invites you to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 School Year, which will be broadcast at ORT Virtual Campus next Monday, March 9th, at 8 am at http://campus.belgrano.ort.edu.ar/

2009 Shagrirei Israel

Within the framework of the 2009 Shagrirei Israel programme, Israeli high-school students from the Kugel School, located at Israeli city of Holon, and students from our School met at the Mini Israel park.

Winners of the “2008 Innovation Technology” Award

The project “Eye Mouse – A Project for a Better Life Quality” developed by Nicolás Amaro and Nicolás Ponieman (6th-year students) from the ICT track, ORT Technical School, Belgrano campus, got the 1st prize at the “2008 Innovation Technology” contest organized by the Argentine-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Other projects have also participated (after passing different evaluation stages), such as the “ARq” Projects from Guido Sirna and Ronan Weimber Waks, and “Digital Access” from Federico Sasson and Federico Holzer, all 6th-year students from the ICT track, who presented their projects at a cocktail in front of 200 businessmen.

We congratulate them all for the accomplishments achieved!

ICT Expo 2008

On December 17th from 4pm to 9pm, there will be a presentation of the projects developed by 4th, 5th and 6th-year students from the ICT track, ORT Technical School, Belgrano campus (2845 Montañeses St.).

Some of the works you will be able to see are related to video games, virtual reality, websites, mobile devices, and simulation.

The project “Eye Mouse – A Project for a Better Life Quality” will be exhibited. This project developed by Nicolás Amaro and Nicolás Ponieman won the 1st prize at “2008 Technological Innovation” contest organized by the Argentine-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

This project enables people with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) -or those who have a handicap which doesn’t allow them to use the traditional mouse- to operate a computer with the movement of their eyes.

Please, confirm your attendance to tic@ort.edu.ar or to 4789-6540.

Argentine Olympiads in Biology (Belgrano Campus)

The students Greta Ponieman (2nd year), Cristian Gonzalez (3rd year) and Nicolás Chamo (3rd year) obtained the 2nd Mention at the XVII Argentine Olympiads in Biology, which took place at the University of Río Cuarto, Córdoba Province.

We congratulate the students and their coaches Agustín Sanguinetti and Mariela Spinelli.

Visit of Prof. Daniel Martínez

We thank Prof. Daniel Martínez, Dean the National University of La Matanza (UNLaM), for his visit to ORT Belgrano campus on October 6th.

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!

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.