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Unread 26-03-2010, 07:13
yaron yaron is offline
Founder of 2214 & FRC Senior Mentor
FRC #1574 (MisCar)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Israel
Posts: 17
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Re: A mentor perspective on what happened in FIRST Israel

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Originally Posted by RandomStyuff View Post
An idea that came up in my team(and yes, we do sit around a table and just talk about ideas related to FIRST, we are a bunch of people with no life ) is to host a summer programming week.
Niv, Thanks for your warm words, now we both know that we have one goal in common, improving FRC comunnity in Israel.
My main job is a director of the Israeli natonal center for technology teacher. Although I can not run workshops for students I can organize workshops for teachers (or mentors). We have just finished one in Tel Aviv. We will have another one this July, all details (in Hebrew), in the center website: moretech.technin.ac.il
I think we luck mentors with deep understanding of engineering education especially in the field of progrmming, networks, communications and sensors.
FRC is for students being mentored by adults, let us work in both direction, improving the mentoring process will improve student learning, improving student learning will teach mentors new and facinating domains, my best teachers in my 22 years of field practice were my students.
Leomi Robotic center at the technion has the resources to orgnize workshops for students and I began working with the director to organize joint workshops.
In the meantime, MisCar organized in the north severl times in the last four years intensive seminars open for all teams in all aspects of FRC. In the last workshop seven teams came from all part of Israel. We will continue to assist any team.
Take care,
Yaron