Community Programming

CAJE Partnering and Local Events and Programming

CAJE and The Jewish Lens
Partnering Event

CAJE and The Jewish Lens are partnering to bring quality curricula to South Florida - Jewish Identity as seen through the lens of a camera. There will be a culminating Community Wide Exhibition on Sunday May 20, 2012, location TBD. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us to see how our students view their identity through a Jewish lens (more information to follow).

Here are some videos we took while the Jewish Lens was in town - We visited Hochberg Prep (video pending) and Chabad Chayil. Cut and paste to view:

Rabbi Kievman

Ziv

Young Girl

About the Jewish Lens
The Jewish Lens The Jewish Lens (TJL) provides experiential Jewish educational programming, engaging youth and young adults in the exploration of Jewish values, identity and tradition while discovering the diversity and unity of Klal Yisrael (Jewish Peoplehood). TJL’s innovative methodology couples the emotional impact of photography with more traditional text-based learning, empowering participants to both strengthen their own link to Judaism and then express it through their own photographs and commentary.
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"Jewish Lens Community Wide Exhibition, May 20, 2012 - "Kehillah:L You, Me, Community"

Click here to view the Photo Gallery

Fairchild Challenge

The Fairchild Challenge (www.fairchildchallenge.org) is an annual, standards-based, environmental education outreach program of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. It offers a menu of separate but parallel interdisciplinary Challenge options for elementary, middle and high schools attracting students of diverse interests, abilities, talents and backgrounds. Through the Challenge, students research and critically evaluate environmental topics, become more actively engaged citizens, and come to appreciate more fully the beauty and value of nature. By blending content areas to create activities, projects, and "authentic experiences" that use the environment as an integrating context for learning, the Challenge promotes science literacy, civic engagement, creative expression, and lifelong learning in students and, by extension, in their respective circles of influence.

FAIRCHILD CHALLENGE AWARDS 2011-2012
15 Jewish Day Schools participated in the Fairchild Challenge this year ~
Over 50% came back with a prize! Here are the results in 3 groups - K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 grades:

Elementary Schools 2011-2012 Award Winners
By earning more than 750 points, 51 elementary schools received The Fairchild Challenge Award, including:
Gordon Day School
Jacobson Sinai Academy
Temple Beth Am
Temple Kol Ami
Toras Emes

HIGHEST HONORS
Cash prizes for environmental initiatives were awarded to the top-scoring elementary schools, including:
Temple Beth Am - $500 Winner

PLUS:
Challenge 3 “Beautiful Blooms” Challenge:
First Place – Temple Kol Ami
Special Merit Awards:
Jacobson Sinai Academy
Hochberg Prep
Challenge 3 “Beautiful Blooms” Poetry Challenge:
Temple Beth Am

Environmental Teacher Role Model of the Year
Vicky Royce Koller of Temple Beth Am

Middle School 2011-2012 Award Winners
By earning more than 800 points, 36 middle schools received The Fairchild Challenge Award, including:
Hillel Community Day School

Special Merit Awards
Challenge 6 “SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS: PLANT BIOLOGY, BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE”
(34 SCHOOLS COMPETED; 5,701 Student participation)
Most Visually Appealing – Hillel Community Day School

Challenge 8 – “SCHOOL GARDEN / HABITAT RESTORATION”
(38 SCHOOLS COMPETED; 4183 Student participation)
Most Amazing Transformation – Hochberg Prep

Challenge 9 – “ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION”
21 SCHOOLS COMPETED; 4269 Student participation
Best Community Initiative – RASG Hebrew Academy

High School 2011-2012 Award Winners
Over 23,000 students at 58 South Florida high schools actively participated, including:
Beis Chana School for Girls
RASG Hebrew Academy
Hillel Community Day School

Special Merit Awards
“EDUCATOR OPTION”
(7 schools competed; 7 student participants)
Hillel Community Day School

OPTION 7B – ART: “NATURAL ELEMENTS OF FLORIDA LANDSCAPES” (PHOTOGRAPHY)
(25 schools competed; 473 student participants)
Taking Artistic Risk with the Composition - Hillel Community Day School

MAZAL TOV TO ALL STUDENT PARTICIPANTS AND THE TEACHERS WHO GUIDED THEM!