The Tech N Torah booth fused the two worlds together to bring Torah concepts to the 21st-century technology-driven child. Using Littlebits sound, light and motion circuit kits, participants created structures such as “the sword of your favorite character in Tanach” and an alarm so that you don’t miss davening. Older students depicted a busy street with sounds and lights to visualize the Gemara passage that talks about the laws of finding an object in a crowded city and whether it’s “finders keepers,” or if the mitzvah of hashavat aveida takes precedence. Student volunteers helped run the booth and explain these ideas to hundreds of spectators from middle school to middle aged and beyond. Students at RYNJ were eager to test out the Littlebits kits in class and let their creativity take over in this STEM skills exercise.

By Dov Hochbaum