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

Commemoration Activity on the National Day of the Memory

On Tuesday 31st, there was an activity at the Almagro campus to commemorate the National Day of Memory. Mariano Levin, who was exiled during the last military coup, visited us.

The event, organized by students and teachers of the Musical Production track, began with a short film on the exile, and then followed a debate moderated by two students.

At the end, a musical theme of the time was interpreted.

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.

Israeli Ambassador at ORT

Daniel Gazit -Israeli Ambassador in Argentina- and his wife were welcomed at ORT Almagro campus by the President and Members of ORT Argentina’s Board of Directors, the Executive Director, senior staff from both campuses and the students who traveled to Israel through JAIL and March of the Living programs. You can find the coverage of the visit at http://campus.almagro.ort.edu.ar/visitamarzo2009

Opening of the 2009 School Year – Almagro Campus

ORT Technical School Principal (Almagro campus), Diana Grimbe, 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 10.30am at http://campus.almagro.ort.edu.ar/

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/

A Ticket to Japan

The 6th-year student Sebastián Vishnopolska, from the Chemistry track, is one of the 4 Argentine representatives at the International Olympiads in Biology, which will take place in Japan from July 12th-19th.

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 Chemistry

On November 7th, the Chemistry Olympic team won 3 medals at the national competition of the 18th Argentine Olympiads in Chemistry, which took place in Villa Giardino, Córdoba Province, from November 4th to 7th.

• Yair Litman obtained a gold medal (Level 3)
• Daniel Averbuj obtained a silver medal (Level 3)
• Ezequiel Maidanik obtained a bronze medal (Level 2)

We also congratulate the rest of the team and Sergio Slaifstein (the trainer)!!!

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.

Good News from Costa Rica

Our students Yair Litman and Daniel Averbuj have obtained a gold medal and silver medal each at the 13th Latin American Olympiads in Chemistry.

We congratulate them once again and wish them a good flight back home!

For further information on the Olympiads: http://www.una.ac.cr/olimpiada_iberoamericana/index.html

National Day of the Solidarity Student

The National Day of the Solidarity Student was commemorated on October 8th at ORT Almagro campus. This new meeting between parents, students and teachers was organized with the aim of acknowledging those students who –during this school year- have participated in the different activities of the “Ceibo Project – Solidarity Students’ Program”.

It was a moving event: all the educational community shared the achievements and experiences of the group. More than 90 students of the senior high-school level were able to renovate and show day by day their commitment and responsibility in the construction of a better future.

We congratulate them all!