Title: Campus Tfutsot Youth Program The Unit for Science Oriented Youth http:enoar.tau.ac.ilenoar_enindex.p
1Campus Tfutsot Youth ProgramThe Unit for
Science Oriented Youth http//e-noar.tau.ac.il/en
oar_en/index.php
2 Campus Tfutsot Science Oriented YouthTable of
Contents
- Vision-General Scope
- Campus Tfutsot
- Features
- Vision
- Past Experience
- Units Activity highlights
- Outline
- Select programs
- Our Human Capital
- Academic steering committee
- Supporters
- Photo-gallery
- Contact Information
3Campus Tfutsot Vision General Scope
- The Unit for Science Oriented Youth, an NPO, was
established at TAUs School of Education in 1981
by the initiative of Mr. Joel Tauber, and has
been serving the community ever since. - Our goals
- Cultivate scientific thinking and striving for
excellence among adolescents via extracurricular
mind-stretching activities. - Sharing the academys cultural and intellectual
richness and diversity, from Biblical archeology
to quantum theory. - To create a community of learners with shared
interests among students from various places in
Israel and the world. - Over 25,000 pupils from Israels entire
Geo-social spectrum think together in a
multitude of activities every year !
4Campus TfutsotFeatures
- Campus Tfutsot is a relatively new project that
utilizes media-enabled learning , such as Saba
University /Centra and other VoIP Image
platforms to make virtual learning an easy task. - Target audience young scholars from the 6th to
the 12th grade. - This program requires a computer class facility
for periodic web-conferencing and as an assembly
venue for local groups. - Courses, riddles and intellectual voyages will
take place on both an individual basis and as
group activities, bonding youth from around the
globe around intellectual challenges. - Actual, in-person Campus Tfutsot conventions
will be held in Israel from time to time.
We need you to help us turn our vision into
reality by providing us with curious kids and a
community center
5 Campus Tfutsot Vision Friendship, Knowledge,
Jewish Culture
- Plug into the global Jewish youth community and
transform it to a curiosity-driven social hub. - Recognize the power of a peer community to
fulfill an unmet need in modern Jewish youths
lives. - Belief in friendships nurtured under the canopy
of mind-cultivating activities. - Leveraging our enormous human intellectual
capital as well as exercising our years of
experience ensures that great expectations will
amount to great experiences.
6Campus Tfutsot Past Experience
- A number of activities have been held to date
- Holiday events with Jewish students in Latin
America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico)
and Spain. Events took place during Hanukah,
Purim, Shavuot and Israels Independence Day. The
activities took place in Hebrew, English and
Spanish. - http//e-noar.tau.ac.il/shavuot/default.ht
m - Scientific assignments to mark the bar mitzvah
year activities took place with Jewish schools
in the United States, under the guidance of
lecturers at Tel Aviv University
Virtual class-Madrid
7The Unit for Science Oriented Youth Yearly
Activity Outline
Conventions and Academic Insight Days (22,000
students/year)
Academic endeavors (400 students/Year)
Competitions Projects (2,000 student/Year)
Science Courses (2,500 Students/Year)
Virtual activity (3,000 students a year)
Astrophysics Olympics
Year-long Courses
Golden Mouse Championship
Prep Course
Academic Exposure Visits
On my way to University
Winter Semester
Dan David Name Your Hero Competition
Virtual School for Gifted Youth
Academic Excellence program
Open University Days
Summer Science Workshops
Campus Tfutsot
Young Scientist Competition
Summer Semester
Science Conventions
Science Summer School
Computer Science competition
Academic Summer for overseas students
New program
Scientific Mobility -in cooperation with Legacy
Heritage
active
8The Unit for Science Oriented Youth Just follow
the links Select Programs
- Tauber Initative- http//www.aftau.org/site/News
2?id5619pageNewsArticle - ATIDIM/Kadima Program
- http//www.atidim.org/ENG/?CategoryID178
- Tel Aviv Youth University
- https//share.acrobat.com/adc/doc
ument.do?docid3d9f4f3f-1c9d-4fbd-868d-2c5b44d11c3
0 - Dan David - Name you hero
- Essay Competition http//www.dandavid
prize.org/youth.html
Tauber Program
Dan David /Al Gore-07
ATIDIM
Tel Aviv Youth University- Prof. Yuli Tamir-
minister of Education
9The Unit for Science Oriented Youth Our Human
Capital
- Professors-10
- PhDs- 20
- PhD students-60
- Masters degree-10
10Academic Steering Committee
The Unit for Science Oriented Youth
- The Unit is supervised by an academic committee,
which is comprised of representatives from
various faculties at the University. The
Committee endorses the Units curriculum and
appoints its lecturers - Prof. Dina Tirosh, CHAIR, THE UNIT FOR SCIENCE
ORIENTED YOUTH, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION - Prof. Adi Ditkowski, MATHEMATICS, FACULTY OF
EXACT SCIENCES - Prof. David Mioduser, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
- Prof. Nili Cohen, FACULTY OF LAW
- Prof. Amos Fein, CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY,
FACULTY OF MEDICINE - Prof. Meir Karlinsky, FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT
- Prof. Igal Halfin, GENERAL HISTORY, FACULTY OF
HUMANITIES - Prof. Amit Gefen, BIO-MEDICAL ENGINEERING,
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING - Prof. Amir Sharon, CEREAL CROPS IMPROVMENT
INSTITUTE, FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES - Prof. Avner Ziv, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
- Ms. Hagit Barak, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
11The Unit for Science Oriented Youth
Partners and Supporters
- Ministry of Education
- Department for Higher Education Studies
- Department for Gifted and Excelling Students
- Science and Technology Administration
- Department for Education and Welfare
- ATIDIM
- Boeing
- Castro
- Check Point Software
- Delta
- Dorset Foundation
- IDB
- Landa Fund
- Lautman Fund
- Legacy Heritage
- Perlman Donation
- Sivan Foundation
- The Tauber Initiative for the Advancement of
Ethiopian Youth
12Photo Gallery
Astrophysics Competition
Golden Mouse Championship
Rabbi Malkior with Baraket and father
Pro Rector Yankielowicz ,Rabbi Malkior,Shira
Shofti Students
Prof Yuli Tamir,Shira Shofty- Head of the Unit
for Science Oriented Youth students
Rector Dany Leviatan, Gil Shwed, Yosi Shteinman
13 The Unit for Science Oriented
Youth Contact Follow up
- Aviv Segal, Ph.D.
- Director of Public Relations, Special Programs
and Competitions - The Unit for Science Oriented Youth
- School of Education
- Tel Aviv University
- Mobile 972-54-4261046
- Email avivs_at_post.tau.ac.il
I will be happy to address whatever questions you
may have by mail or phone.
14The Unit for Science Oriented Youth
Thank You, Shana Tova Happy New Year!