Torah Academy of Bergen County is proud to announce major accomplishments by three of our outstanding students.
Our senior, Yehuda Koslowe, was selected as one of 723 semifinalists to advance to the final round of the 2017 Presidential Scholarship competition. Yehuda is the only yeshiva high school student in the country to move on to the semifinals. From nearly 3.5 million graduating high school seniors, only 723 semifinalists were selected. Of the semifinalists, the commission will name the 161 United States Presidential Scholars.
Shlomi Helfgot ‘18 came in fourth place at the International Chidon HaTanach on Yom Ha’atzmaut in Yerushalayim. Out of the hundreds of students who start in the contestant pool, and the dozens who make it to the preliminary “Chidon Camp” in Israel, only 16 actually qualify to compete in the final contest, which is televised live in Israel.
The education department at ASHG announced on Tuesday that Yaakov Zinberg ’18 had earned an Honorable Mention for his essay on Cystic Fibrosis. National DNA Day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 and the discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953. This year’s DNA Day was on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. In connection with this day the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) held an annual contest, which is open to students in grades 9-12 worldwide, and asks students to examine, question and reflect on important concepts in genetics. Essays are expected to be well-reasoned arguments indicative of a depth of understanding of the concepts related to the essay question. They are evaluated by ASHG members through three rounds of scoring. This year, there were submissions from 38 states and 21 countries.
