The girls succeeded in impressing the judges when they presented a model of a structure for producing water on the moon * Head of the Council Yair Wolf: "Immense pride for Gush Etzion, now we will initiate the establishment of a space program at the school"
The 140th-11th grade students of the Regional School for Girls of Gush Etzion won first place in the Junior Olympiad for Astronomy and Space Research named after the late Ilan Ramon. The competition is held on behalf of the Weizmann Institute in cooperation with the National Center for Science Teaching and the Directorate for Science and Technology at the Ministry of Education. More than -XNUMX schools participated in the national Olympics, of which only XNUMX schools qualified for the final stage.
In the first stage, the girls succeeded in a virtual quiz about astronomy and space, in the second stage they excelled in a research mission of producing water on the moon, and in the third and final stage, the girls succeeded in impressing the judges when they presented a model of a structure for producing water on the moon, and produced an elaborate presentation and a fascinating film on the subject.
In order to make sure that the first place would be in their pocket, the girls invested all their time and energy for the sake of the issue: they opened a Facebook page, consulted with experts, studied the issue in depth, and the partnership of the girls, their parents and their teachers was impressive and overwhelming. Their idea was to produce water using microwaves, solar cells and electrolysis, and in order to develop it they went deep and searched for information in all possible ways, from websites, through researchers to data they received from NASA.
Council head Yair Wolf: "This is a great pride for Gush Etzion and its residents. Within one month we won the space exploration Olympics, a judge from Gush Etzion was appointed to the Supreme Court and we even received education budgets totaling NIS 22 million from the Ministry of Education to continue successfully. The great achievement gives us motivation and we will work to establish a major in science, technology and space at the school. We will continue to maintain a quality gap from the rest of the country."
Ilana Sultan, director of the Gush Etzion Gush Regional Youth Development Center: "The girls who won first place are not necessarily the best - but girls who put a lot of effort into the task, cooperated in an amazing way and reached this achievement through perseverance and determination. This is the main message that our school transmits to its students - if you have the desire to progress, the ability to persevere and cooperate with those around you - the sky is not the limit either."
for the works of the students from all the schools that advanced to the finals
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It's unfortunate that Ilana Sultan is not able to wholeheartedly praise the girls and takes pains to emphasize that they are "not necessarily the best". She dwarfs this wonderful achievement and notes: "If you have the desire to move forward, the ability to persevere and cooperate with those around you - the sky is not the limit either." Of course, the ability to persist and cooperate are important, but all the persistence in the world will not help if there is no ability, high intelligence, a brilliant, original idea. Girls, congratulations on the amazing achievement! You are the real standouts.