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MTA commemorated Yom HaShoah with a meaningful program, which began with opening remarks from Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn, followed by Senior Nadav Heller, who talked about his experience interviewing a Holocaust survivor as part of MTA’s Names, Not Numbers program. The introduction closed with Senior Gavriel Iskhakbayev lighting a candle in memory of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust.

Mr. Tibor Kupferstein, a Holocaust survivor from Budapest, Hungary, spoke with the middle school students at the Bnos Malka Academy on Yom HaShoah. Mr. Kupferstein captured their attention with his incredible life story.

The MakerSpace at NYU Tandon School of Engineering became a shark tank of sorts on Tuesday, April 30, when high school students dove into entrepreneurship to pitch their robotic inventions to a panel of experts. The event was the finale of the second annual NYU ITEST InnoVention competition, a National Science Foundation-funded project aimed at showing metropolitan-area high schoolers and their teachers how robots can turn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) into a scintillating team sport with real-world applications.

Blood Drives are usually not inviting events. The acrid metallic smell instantly brings a needle penetrating the skin to mind. The dim whirring leads one to recall the sight of bags full of blood kept in constant motion.

HANC High School students participated in a yom iyun program and siyum dedicated to the theme of Attitude of Gratitude right before Pesach break. The entire morning was a huge success.

Digital Citizenship day, recently celebrated at HAFTR Middle School, was an empowering and inspiring day for students, educators, and parents alike.