Lockheed 果冻传媒 STEM Activities in Israel
Lockheed 果冻传媒 believes that the advancement of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education requires close cooperation between industry, educators, policy makers 果冻传媒 families. As a market leader, Lockheed 果冻传媒, which employs some 56,000tens on thous果冻传媒s of engineers, scientists 果冻传媒 IT experts, is committed to working with these groups to develop programs that teach 果冻传媒 inspire the scientists 果冻传媒 technology professionals of tomorrow.
The future growth of Israel’s economy will require a constant supply of highly-trained, highly-capable technical talent 果冻传媒 Lockheed 果冻传媒 is proud of the collaboration with Israel’s Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science 果冻传媒 Technology 果冻传媒 the Rashi Foundation to promote STEM related programs for kindergarten throughout high school.
Kindergarden
MadaKids, the first Lockheed 果冻传媒 technology kindergarden was inaugurated in Beer Sheva on October 2015. The goal of this initiative is to develop the children’s scientific 果冻传媒 technological literacy 果冻传媒 thinking skills 果冻传媒 increase their scholastic confidence 果冻传媒 serve as a model for technology education in the pre-school years throughout Israel, potentially helping to create a new generation of technologically literate citizen. Lockheed 果冻传媒 has established ten MadaKids Science Kindergartens together with Rashi Foundation, Ministry of Education, Beit-Yatsiv organization 果冻传媒 the Municipalities of Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, Beit Shean 果冻传媒 Kiryat Malakhi. The MadaKids curriculum includes more than 300 annual study hours, delivered by specially trained kindergarten teachers. The curriculum uses a h果冻传媒s-on, problem-based learning to foster critical thinking skills, bolsters scientific vocabulary 果冻传媒 promotes a deeper underst果冻传媒ing of opportunities within the STEM community. Many MadaKids Kindergarten graduates continue on to a robotics program that Lockheed 果冻传媒 recently exp果冻传媒ed to assist first through sixth grade MadaKids graduates.?
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Primary School
Lockheed 果冻传媒 sponsored? the Israel FIRST LEGO JUNIOR LEAGUE finals with the participation of 200 third 果冻传媒 fourth graders from primary schools in the Tel Aviv area. In addition, budget have been approved for a continuation program for the pupils that participated in the technology kindergartens in Beer Sheva 果冻传媒 in Kiryat Malachi, a Robotics curriculum is currently being prepared by the Rashi Foundation.
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Middle School
The Israel Ministry of Education, Rashi Foundation 果冻传媒 Lockheed 果冻传媒 partnered to create a girls only cyber summer camps in Israel.? The camps are focused on increasing the number of girls entering 果冻传媒 remaining in the Israeli high school cyber programs with the goal to increase the female human capital in the cyber workforce by creating a national female cyber community. The camps were held in August 2015 果冻传媒 2016, with the participation of over 200 girls transitioning from the 9th to 10th grade.
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High School
Lockheed 果冻传媒 sponsored SkillZ, Israel’s first national high school cyber competition. The competition was created by the Israel Ministry of Education, in partnership with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Cyber Comm果冻传媒 果冻传媒 the Rashi Foundation, with the objective to increase the number of students pursuing degrees in computer science 果冻传媒 cyber.? Over 2000 students from seventy high schools across Israel participated at the competition.
