Youngsters from the Ilan Ramon Youth Physics Center in Beer Sheva, Israel, notched an achievement on a global scale Wednesday by winning yet another prize in the “First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics” annual competition, widely considered the world’s most prestigious science prize for high school students.
Between 2007 and 2014, the Ramon Center has placed Israel as the world leader in prizes for physics research conducted by high schoolers. The center has won 45 total prizes during that period, leaving countries like South Korea, the U.S., and Russia far behind.
The Ramon Center operates in conjunction with physics teachers from across the Jewish state to identify the most gifted southern Israeli students. The students write their research work with the guidance of experts from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
This year, 10 of the best research projects were submitted to the prestigious U.S.-based competition, and on Thursday the students’ research projects were presented to the wider Israeli public for the first time.
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{Matzav.com Israel}
Did you ever feel like you werent acting according to your own best interests? Did you ever feel like you were doing something that you would later regret? I doubt there is anyone that hasnt felt these feelings at one point or another. Its the very essence of our personalities; a never ending battle between the good and the greater good, between that which is right and that which is comfortable. The mission of our lives, our long term goals, will not and cannot provide instant gratification, and so we crutch upon the mundane to satisfy the moment, sometimes in the process becoming our own greatest enemy. Its a stumbling block nearly impossible to avoid, a problem which is universal. Its the story of Life.
The difference between life and death, in a physical sense, is simply a question of whether or not our heart is pumping; yet who is fool enough to suggest that the tragedy of death is merely the lack of the pump? Dare I say that the vast majority of men live their lives accomplishing, in a universal sense, no more than an ant, barely more than a rock? Nothing. So what is it all for? Is there any meaning? Why even bother?
I doubt our grandparents had the arrogance to think in these terms. These questions stem from an ability to think in a global sense, an ability unique to our generation, enabled by the place in history in which we live. We live in a time of global economy, a United Nations, the era of the internet, a time where access to the entire planet lies in the palm of our hands. We are forced, by virtue of access, to think in global terms and yet we barely have the ability to manage our personal lives. Is it even a wonder that depression has been triggered to dominance?
such nachas!
#1: What is the point of your rant?
#3: probably to ran????