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AMIT STUDENT WINS FIRST PRIZE IN INTEL ISRAEL SCIENCE COMPETITION
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ILYA GUREVICH TO REPRESENT ISRAEL AT INTEL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN OREGON
| Bulletin! Ilya was awarded a second place Karl Menger Award of Excellence from the American Mathematical Society at Intel’s international competition in Portland, Oregon |
New York City, March 25, 2004......Ilya Gurevich, a senior at the AMIT Harry and Bina Appleman Comprehensive High School in Beersheva, has won first prize in the Intel Israel-Bloomfield Science Museum Young Scientists Competition. Ilya will go on to represent Israel at the Intel International Young Scientists Competition, scheduled for May 9-15, 2004, in Portland, Oregon.
Second prize in the contest also was captured by AMIT. Tehila Lavie and Reut Suliman, students at the AMIT Renanim Science and Technology High School for Girls in Ra'anana, were awarded second prize in the competition; Gil Wilder, also a student at Renanim, was a finalist.
"We are extremely excited and pleased with these accomplishments by our AMIT students," commented Jan Schechter, president of AMIT. "These young people have brought great honor to AMIT and confirm our belief in the AMIT system of education. Additionally, these results reflect on the quality of our teachers and administrators whom we have always believed were among the finest and most dedicated in Israel.
"AMIT's schools enroll a considerable number of students from the Former Soviet Union and we have found them generally to be excellent students. We wish Ilya the best of luck at the international competition in Oregon," Ms. Schechter concluded.
Ilya arrived from the Former Soviet Union with his parents in 1991. He entered AMIT Appleman in seventh grade. Since eleventh grade he also has been attending Ben Gurion University and will soon complete his B.A. in physics. Truly a young man of exceptional accomplishment, Ilya was recently awarded the Rector's Prize from Ben Gurion University for maintaining an above 97 grade point average.
Ilya's winning project for the Intel Competition involved research on the behavior and influence of small disruptions in the uniformity of the universe. His award includes a NIS 10,000 scholarship from Israel's President, Moshe Katzav.
Now in its seventh year, the Intel Israel-Bloomfield Science Museum Young Scientists Competition is designed to promote, develop and encourage creative and original thought among Israeli youth. The Intel International Young Scientists Competition is held annually in May and brings together more than 1,200 teenagers from 40 countries to compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the grand prize of a $50,000 college scholarship and a high-performance computer.
AMIT is the world's leading supporter of religious Zionist education and social services for Israeli youth. Since 1925, AMIT has nurtured and educated Israeli children to become productive, contributing members of society. Its 60 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs constitute Israel's only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies. A majority of AMIT's 14,000 children come from economically disadvantaged and/or troubled families. They reflect all Israel: sabra and new immigrant; religious and secular; Ashkenazi, Sephardi and every nation of the Jewish Diaspora. Today, significant numbers of AMIT students are immigrants from Ethiopia and the Former Soviet Union.
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Media Contact:
Barbara Goldberg
Director of Communications
212-477-4720, ext. 127
barbarag@amitchildren.org
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