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Eighth Graders Make History for Hebrew Academy by Winning Top Awards in the CADENA Initiative for the Fourth Time!

Eighth Graders Make History for Hebrew Academy by Winning Top Awards in the CADENA Initiative for the Fourth Time!

On Thursday, May 4, 8th graders Talia Winer and Simona Folk, made history for our school by obtaining the top award in the CADENA Initiative regional competition. The girls created a prototype for a smartphone application that will teach students about past and present humanitarian crises happening around the world in order to encourage the community to learn about the people who have been affected. By interacting with the APP, users will answer questions that will allow them to win virtual prizes, which will encourage the user to keep playing with the APP. The objective of their idea is to educate the user and hopefully spark in them the empathy to help such communities. This is the fourth time that our school has won first prize in such a prestigious competition. Now the Hebrew Academy team will represent South Florida, and the USA, in the international competition that will take place on May 26 via zoom.

CADENA Initiative is a global competition created by the CADENA Foundation, a Jewish nonprofit organization (based in Mexico City) that provides hand in hand help to vulnerable communities that have been victims of a humanitarian crisis or emergency no matter the race, nationality, religion, or social group that one belongs. This competition is based on the pillar of TIKKUN OLAM “REPAIRING OR CHANGING THE WORLD”, and its main goal is to encourage  Middle School students to come out with ideas that deal with the question: How to prevent the consequences of a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis? Students are challenged to research and learn about an underprivileged community from anywhere in the world and then familiarize themselves with their needs so they can develop an innovative project to help a specific group and the needs of that community.  

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