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Quick! Can you name an inexpensive and drug-free remedy for stress, anxiety, and mental overload? (No, chocolate does not count.)

The week of Parshas Noach at HALB Lev Chana is filled with the excitement of exploring rainbows, water experiments, and sink-and-float activities. The highlight, though, is the annual visit of Party Pets, with their amazing, exotic visitors. Andre Ricaud and his assistants teach the children about conservation, being sensitive to people and animals with disabilities, animal habitats and eating habits, and fun facts about the menagerie of mammals, birds, insects, and reptiles they were introduced to. Hands down, when asked who the stars of the day were, the children responded: either Jake the Snake and the newest member of Party Pets, Roo, the baby kangaroo, or Joey.

A number of rebbeim and Rambam Mesivta families opened their sukkos to the Rambam talmidim for singing, divrei Torah, and delicious food over this past chag.

On Wednesday, October 30, the MTA Varsity Hockey Lions played against Hillel High School. Both teams were ready for an exciting game. Two minutes into the first period, Gabe Pudell (’21) scored what turned out to be the first of many MTA goals. Shortly after that, Ben Friedman (’20) scored. That was it for the first period.

MTA’s Names, Not Numbers program welcomed award-winning investigative reporter Jonah Kaplan on Wednesday, October 30. Originally from Philadelphia, Kaplan joined ABC11 Eyewitness News in 2016 as the Political and Investigative Reporter. A two-time Emmy nominee, he is an integral part of the ABC11 I-Team alongside Troubleshooter Diane Wilson.

The eighth grade STEM class at the Bais Yaakov Academy of Queens started the year exploring the engineering design process. Students began with the “Spaghetti Marshmallow Challenge,” a team-building activity in which they were to design and build a tower out of 20 pieces of spaghetti and one meter of tape that could support one marshmallow. The girls were amazed at how a seemingly light, fluffy marshmallow could tip the balance necessary for their designs to stand.