SKA Israeli tech travels

Four engineering students from the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls participated in CIJE’s second annual tech trip to Israel for high school students.

The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education’s “Journey to the Start-Up Nation” was part of CIJE’s continuing effort to get students interested in careers in STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The trip, under CIJE Director Judy Lebovits, included 22 other students and mentors from yeshiva high schools throughout the United States. It emphasized life sciences and biotechnology and took the students to such places as the Technion, the Weitzman Institute, biotech firm Given Imaging, and to start-ups, venture capital businesses and entrepreneurial firms.

The SKA engineering students, Chaya Biderman, Kayla Evans, Zohar Reyhanian and Aliyah Tanami, returned both excited and inspired.