Hello everyone !
I'm from Israel and this year my school is taking part in the first contest for the first time. I'm really excited about it and from what i hear it's a great experience I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun and that we can learn a lot from this competition.
anyway, i want to comment about all the rumors I've heard here. yes, General Motors is sponsoring the Israeli regional event and NASA is also helping.
From what I know, which is a 100% certain, the Israeli teams will have the same challenge as the north American teams and the winning Israeli teams WILL go to the championship in Atlanta.
From what I know so far, there is no Palestinian team in the Israeli regionals and there probably won't be any Palestinian teams this year. this year they will be only 11 (and possibly 12) Israeli rookie Teams. The twelfth team is having troubles finding a sponsor and will probably not attend the 2005 regional. And I'm sure they won't be any teams from north America.
and about this quote:
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Dean and Sharon met sometime after this, and Sharon told him that teaching children about history had obviously not worked--fighting still continues, the same mistakes are made, and that he wants students to learn about science and technology, the ways of the future.
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I'm almost positive Ariel Sharon didn't say that, neither did Shimon Peres. but i don't want to turn this into a political discussion.