The RKYHS 10th grade scientific engineering students presented their capstone projects at the CIJE annual Innovation Day Conference. RKYHS is pleased to announce that the team of RKYHS sophomore Maurice Korish and SINAI Maor at RKYHS student Yisroel Newmark won first place in the Innovation in Health Care category for their Feedbot facial recognition software that enables physically challenged people to feed themselves independently. This is the second year in a row that a team from RKYHS won first place in this category. The team of RKYHS sophomores Eli Novick, Rebecca Nussbaum and Tommi Ratzker took home second place in the Innovative Technology category for their J-DAWG Juul detector, which senses Juuling in school bathrooms and notifies appropriate administrators. Their team is one of six semi-finalists that will compete in the CIJE Shark Tank competition this fall, selected from over 70 entries.

All of the RKYHS students that presented have been working on their projects all year long and gained knowledge in circuitry and programming and how to use microcontrollers, microcomputers and countless technology components. Equally important, they have learned to persevere through frustration, to learn from mistakes, to find new ways to solve problems and to present technical information in a professional business setting.