(Courtesy of AMIT) AMIT students from across Israel gathered at the Gogya teacher-training center in Ra’anana this week to take part in the network’s national research competition, in which teams from different schools present various scientific and environmental research projects.

The team from AMIT Kennedy Junior and Senior High School came in first place with their work on “green electricity.”

Teams of students presented their projects to a group of scientists, who were especially impressed by the AMIT students from Acco. Their work on generating electricity through the ground and trees, by using their natural conductivity, also recently won first place at the international science and education program called GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment).

The second and third place winners at AMIT’s national research competition were AMIT Florin Taman Junior and Senior High School for Boys, whose students investigated bioplastics (plastics derived from renewable sources), and the team from Yeshivat AMIT Ashdod, who studied the effects of activated charcoal on seed germination. Etti Zabary, principal of AMIT Kennedy in Acco, congratulated her students on their continued winning streak, saying, “During the course of the work, the students demonstrated many skills required from scientists today, beyond scientific thinking and knowledge—cooperation, teamwork and creativity.”

AMIT was named the leading educational network by the Ministry of Education in Israel, providing cutting-edge Jewish values-based education to a diverse group of children in 29 cities throughout Israel.