MAY Annual Grand Siyum
Mesivta Ateres Yaakov held its annual Grand Siyum celebrating the nearly 30% pf the student body who completed a masechta of Sha"s or a seder mishnayos. These 53 talmidim, who completed 60 Masechtos and Sedarim of Mishnayos over the course of the school year were joined by more than 150 parents, grandparents and relatives, and the MAY Rabbeim, who came to celebrate this outstanding achievement.
MAY Engineering Students Visit NY Rehabilitative Services
Mesivta Ateres Yaakov boasts a host of different elective options for its talmidim. Among them is the very popular CIJE (Center for Initiates in Jewish Education) Engineering Program. Students in the two year course learn engineering concepts ranging from simple constructs to robotics. The course culminates each year at the CIJE Engineering Fair, which will be held at the New York Hilton.
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Academic Talent 2-fer: TWO MAY Seniors Win Elite National Merit Scholarship Honor
Of the 1,600,000 American Juniors from 22,000 high schools who take the PSAT exam, only 1% are selected as finalists and given the opportunity to compete for only 7,500 Merit Scholarship awards. How elite is that? You can ask MAY seniors Shmuel Maltz and Natan Samson, who were both recently selected as National Merit Scholarship finalists!
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Touro Arrives in the Five Towns
MAY Annual Shabbaton
Mesivta Ateres Yaakov held its annual Spring Shabbaton on the beautiful campus of Camp Romimu in Monticello, NY. The Shabbaton was a resounding success, replete with tremendous growth in Ruchniyus, Achdus, Ahavas Hashem and Ahavas HaTorah.