GIRLPOWER Students Experience Careers and Personal Development in Innovative Programs at AMIT Ori BY GLORIA AVERBUCH
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ina Hendler had a dream: to open the eyes of her female students to the world around them. With her hard work and dedication to that dream, she has dramatically changed the lives of the all-girls middle- and high-school students at AMIT Ori in Ma’ale Adumim. It began six years ago, when two high school seniors approached Hendler and asked her how to save a PDF on their computers. Hendler recalls that moment. “I understood that our students don’t really know even the simple things that make life easier.” Since then, she and her students have plunged directly into science, medicine and technology, including a trip to Google and a meeting with the tech giant’s top female executives. “There is no chance to do this in regular studies, we want to take the students out to meet women who have gone far, and in places like Google and Microsoft.” It is Hendler’s goal that the students achieve both real-world experience as well as encouragement to pursue related studies.
Student Shelly Erez
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