![]() The trio was cited for sifting through scientific literature and then forecasting 20 years into future for what the state of knowledge about human ability to regenerate limbs will be. His major? He doesn’t know yet.Īt Ma’ayanot, sisters Ariella and Eliana Applebaum, and Elana Forman, all of Teaneck, were national winners in the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVisionAwards Program. Shlomo will attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. “After all, in the general sense, mainstream sports have been, and probably will be, cooler than the College Bowl,” he said. While TABC is “very supportive” of academic teams, the satisfaction of winning is more within the team itself, he said. “You can’t pickup and play college bowl, but you can with sports,” he said. Athletics have their place, said Shlomo, who was on the tennis and softball teams and runs now and then. If there is a divide between brains and brawn, Shlomo speaks from both sides. “A calculator is such a terrible crutch,” he said. Nine hours and about 45 minutes, he figured. Asked how many hours, caught without a calculator, he had to think a bit. He said he was in school from about 7:40 a.m. He just happened to have the answer filed in his brain – Lord North. history question: Who was the British prime minister during the American Revolution? Asked what was one of his out-of-the-blue questions, he recalled a U.S. In other cases, though, you can’t really study because the subject matter is so broad. In some cases, like the Science Olympiad, contestants have to practice, he said. After Shlomo’s explanation, the concept is still mysterious, but less so. Picking a question at random, Shlomo demonstrated an answer involving logarithms, a concept that has mystified this reporter for decades. The Torah Bowl is in more of a quiz show format, with competitors pressing a button to buzz when they have an answer. Other competition are out in the open, though – the College Bowl championships, for example. “It is a solo experience, you’re flying alone,” he said. “You can go to a hockey game, but you can’t go to a math competition,” he said. This kind of competition is not a spectator sport. He explained that the math competitions are in test format and take place within the student’s school. He speaks from the experience of his roles as captain of the Science Olympiad, Torah Bowl, and College Bowl teams. Shlomo Klapper, this year’s TABC valedictorian, shared insights about these kinds of competition. Although he didn’t make the final team, Yakir, a junior, finished in the top 80 out of 100,000. The Mathematics Association of America uses a series of competitions to choose a six-person team to represent the United States in the math Olympiad. In the New Jersey Math League competition, TABC placed fifth-highest in the state and first in Bergen County. There were 96 participants from around the country. Tzipporah Greenberg, a sophomore at Bais Yackovin Passaic also took honorable mention. Senior Netanel Friedenberg won the third prize of $100, and junior Moshe Kollmar took honorable mention. Yakir Forman, a junior, won the first prize of $1,000 in the inaugural Jacob Goldfinger Memorial Mathematics competition sponsored by Touro College’s Lander College for men. “The ‘big man’ or ‘big woman on campus’ is more often than not not an athlete,” he said.īy the numbers, TABC has had a winning year in math competition. “Sports are important, but they are not that important,” Stein said. “When the team brings a trophy, all the kids cheer,” and the praise of their teachers counts for a lot, she said.Īt The Frisch School in Paramus, Principal Kalman Stein said academics share the space on the podium with athletics. The students experience intrinsic rewards, said Rookie Billet, principal at Ma’ayanot. ![]() “They enjoy the competition,” she continued. The academic competitors “are applauded by their peers they are held in high esteem,” said Irene Stein, the TABC math teacher who guided the math competitors. “We at TABC emphasize participation in all extra-curricular activities, be that athletics or academics,” said Arthur Poleyeff, principal for general studies at the Teaneck school. But they also compete in such areas as chess, debate, mock trial, Torah Bowl, New Jersey Challenge, Science Olympiad, and math. The schools field a full range of athletic teams, among them baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, and volleyball. Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories A student at the Frisch Academy in Paramus came out on top over 400 other students in a Talmud competition. Three students from Ma’ayanot Yeshiva for Girls in Teaneck just were honored in Washington for winning a prestigious science competition. The question arises following some stellar performances in the academic world: Torah Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck brought home multiple awards in math competition.
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