Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM)
In 2005, two respected scholars came together to create a unique STEAM program at KSA. Dr. Nitzan Resnick and Dr. Shai Simonson collaborated to create The New Science and Math Initiative (NSMI).
Since its establishment both the program in its entirety and many of its components have been embedded in other private and public schools in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois.
Based on growing concerns around the state of STEAM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the US, Dr. Resnick designed NSMI based on her experience with undergraduate and graduate students to build important basic research/inquiry skills and inspire children’s curiosity of STEAM.
At KSA, our STEAM program aims to provide the students with inquiry skills and to promote scientific passion through:
To help in achieving these goals and to enhance learning opportunities, the program incorporates state of the art technological tools.
Our STEAM program received several awards and grants, such as the Best Buy technology award, the “We can Change” Siemens award and an honorary mentioning in the Disney Planet project.
Since its establishment both the program in its entirety and many of its components have been embedded in other private and public schools in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois.
Based on growing concerns around the state of STEAM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the US, Dr. Resnick designed NSMI based on her experience with undergraduate and graduate students to build important basic research/inquiry skills and inspire children’s curiosity of STEAM.
At KSA, our STEAM program aims to provide the students with inquiry skills and to promote scientific passion through:
- Teaching STEAM as a multidisciplinary concept.
- Providing the students with thinking and inquiry tools through which they can independently gain knowledge.
- Including scientists, engineers, physicians and researchers from the academic field and industry in the teaching process (face to face, Skype, site visits) and in updating the science curriculum. (This involvement is crucial in introducing the students with up to date, ”real life” science).
- Introducing and emphasizing on collaborative learning outside the context of the immediate classroom. As 21st century science is primarily based on multidisciplinary collaboration among scientists, this concept should be introduced to the students and can be achieved by creating learning communities inside an individual school, inside the immediate community or internationally.
To help in achieving these goals and to enhance learning opportunities, the program incorporates state of the art technological tools.
Our STEAM program received several awards and grants, such as the Best Buy technology award, the “We can Change” Siemens award and an honorary mentioning in the Disney Planet project.
Professor Aaron CiechanoverOn Monday, January 7, Aaron Ciechanover, a Technion Distinguished Research Professor in the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute at the Technion, "visited" Kehillah Schechter Academy.
Professor Ciechanover visited as a part of the 7th and 8th grade Science Fair focusing on cancer research. Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist, who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. |
In 2005, he was voted the co-31st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. As one of Israel's first Nobel Laureates in Science, he is honored in playing a central role in the history of theState of Israel and in the History of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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Dr Andrew Lo visits KSA from David Paskin on Vimeo. |
Dr. Andrew LoOn Thursday, November 29, Andrew Lo, the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering visited Kehillah Schechter Academy.
Dr. Lo visited as a part of the 7th and 8th grade Science Fair focusing on cancer research. As part of their learning, students read an article about Dr. Lo’s thinking regarding the intersection of economics and medical research. After reading the article, one student wrote, “I like that Dr Lo is working on bringing Wall Street-style financial engineering to focus on curing cancer and cancer research funding. I understand that Dr. Lo wants to create a 'mega-fund' that would give the scientists possibly 30 million dollars to really help research in cancer drugs.” MIT economist pitches cancer megafund |
Professor Lo received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1984. Before joining MIT's finance faculty in 1988, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School as the W.P. Carey Assistant Professor of Finance from 1984 to 1987, and as the W.P. Carey Associate Professor of Finance from 1987 to 1988.
He has published numerous articles in finance and economics journals, and has authored several books including The Econometrics of Financial Markets, A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street, Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective, and The Evolution of Technical Analysis. He is currently co-editor of the Annual Review of Financial Economics and an associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management, and the Journal of Computational Finance.
His awards include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Paul A. Samuelson Award, the American Association for Individual Investors Award, the Graham and Dodd Award, the 2001 IAFE-SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the CFA Institute's James R. Vertin Award, the 2010 Harry M. Markowitz Award, and awards for teaching excellence from both Wharton and MIT.
For more information, contact: Dr. Nitzan Resnick, Head of School, nresnick@ksa-ne.org, 781-769-5555
He has published numerous articles in finance and economics journals, and has authored several books including The Econometrics of Financial Markets, A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street, Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective, and The Evolution of Technical Analysis. He is currently co-editor of the Annual Review of Financial Economics and an associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management, and the Journal of Computational Finance.
His awards include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Paul A. Samuelson Award, the American Association for Individual Investors Award, the Graham and Dodd Award, the 2001 IAFE-SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the CFA Institute's James R. Vertin Award, the 2010 Harry M. Markowitz Award, and awards for teaching excellence from both Wharton and MIT.
For more information, contact: Dr. Nitzan Resnick, Head of School, nresnick@ksa-ne.org, 781-769-5555
