The project provides extracurricular educational support in mathematics and science to excelling 6th and 7th grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, with the goal of enhancing their chances of acceptance into advanced school programs and careers in STEM. Students are transported weekly to Technion for tutoring by volunteer university students. In its first year, the project worked with 40 elementary students and 65 Technion volunteers, contributing over 2,000 tutoring hours. Most students who participated were accepted into leading science programs. The project aims to reduce socioeconomic gaps and increase representation of
The document discusses the history of spirituality in Europe between 1150-1450 CE. Key developments included the Gregorian reforms which aimed to purify the church but failed to satisfy people, leading to dissident movements. The Vita Evangelica expressed a fervent spirituality imitating Jesus and was expressed through mendicant groups like Franciscans. This contributed to urban revival and the growth of cities, where cathedrals fostered aspirations of community and a vision of heavenly splendor. New spiritual communities and orders of preachers emerged, including the Dominicans and Beguines, engaging in preaching, teaching, and ministering to the poor.
This document contains a grammar test with multiple choice questions on parts of speech and tense, a vocabulary test with multiple choice questions testing word meanings, exercises on word formation and error recognition, and a reading comprehension section with questions on two passages. It appears to be a test of English language skills containing various questions types to evaluate grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension abilities.
The project provides extracurricular educational support in mathematics and science to excelling 6th and 7th grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, with the goal of enhancing their chances of acceptance into advanced school programs and careers in STEM. Students are transported weekly to Technion for tutoring by volunteer university students. In its first year, the project worked with 40 elementary students and 65 Technion volunteers, contributing over 2,000 tutoring hours. Most students who participated were accepted into leading science programs. The project aims to reduce socioeconomic gaps and increase representation of
The document discusses the history of spirituality in Europe between 1150-1450 CE. Key developments included the Gregorian reforms which aimed to purify the church but failed to satisfy people, leading to dissident movements. The Vita Evangelica expressed a fervent spirituality imitating Jesus and was expressed through mendicant groups like Franciscans. This contributed to urban revival and the growth of cities, where cathedrals fostered aspirations of community and a vision of heavenly splendor. New spiritual communities and orders of preachers emerged, including the Dominicans and Beguines, engaging in preaching, teaching, and ministering to the poor.
This document contains a grammar test with multiple choice questions on parts of speech and tense, a vocabulary test with multiple choice questions testing word meanings, exercises on word formation and error recognition, and a reading comprehension section with questions on two passages. It appears to be a test of English language skills containing various questions types to evaluate grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension abilities.