entrepreneurship festival at elementary school in israel
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Impressions from the Entrepreneurship
Festival at “Kaplan” Elementary School
in Israel
April 2016
“Kaplan”, led by Tali Toledano, is an entrepreneurial school.
The school believes that choice and relevance promote the will to learn, and
help develop students into proactive and involved entrepreneurs,
which are important skills in the 21st century.
The school developed a multi-year program for entrepreneurial learning that
develops entrepreneurial skills.
The entrepreneurship festival is a day where personal and class-wide
ventures were presented, as was what is done and learned in different
subjects at the school.
This slideshow shows some of the many activities the school offers involving
entrepreneurship.
The entrepreneur students identified needs, came up with ideas for ventures,
learned the subject, defined benefits and target audiences, created action
plans and executed their ventures and/or developed models.
Model presentation stations for ventures developed by school students
The venture: Managing the blog:
“respond 6th grade 1”
The team: 6th-grade class A
Accompanying teacher: Lina
Zabunyan
With: Innon Boim, entrepreneur and
CEO of PTNeto
The idea: Managing a class-wide
blog on PTNeto
The venture: Big Brother
The team: 3rd-grade students
Education team: Hadas Amiel,
Amira Shina and Miri Cohen
The idea: 3rd graders will lead
activities about animals for
kindergarteners
The venture: Independent in
the field, good morning!
The team: 1st-grade students
With: Parents of students and
teachers Orit Mor and Yafit
Guetta
The idea: Finding a solution to
opening the cereal bag, pouring
it into the bowl and pouring in
milk without it spilling into the
cereal bowl.
The venture: Come enjoy
Petah Tikva
The team: 4th-grade students
Education team: Esti Pritas
and Iris Barkan
The idea: Creating a digital
book for children and parents to
choose a place to spend time
with the kids in Petah Tikva
using different measures.
The venture: Clean bathrooms
under the children’s
responsibility
The team: 2nd-grade students
With: Parents of students,
teachers Sivan Keller Eliash
and Nurit Smama, and the class
helper
The idea: Raise awareness
about the need to keep the
bathrooms clean, hygienic and
well-smelling in various ways.
The venture: Smiling trash
cans
The team: 5th-grade class B
With: Galit Avudi
The idea: Upgrade existing
trash cans and add new trash
cans with a new and unique
logo.
The venture: S & S= smiles
and soldiers
The team: 6th-grade class A
With: Teacher Lina Zabunyan,
the parent organization, teacher
Ilana and her son Yoav
The idea: Inviting soldiers from
the rescue unit 669 in the air
force to meet students in order
to thank them for their work for
citizens.
The venture: A vegetable
garden to help the animal
corner
The team: 2nd-grade class C
With: Parents and teacher
Galia Krisi
The idea: Starting a vegetable
garden at the school lawn,
where the children will grow
different types of vegetables,
which will be used to feed the
animals in the school’s animal
corner.
The venture: Starting on the
right foot
The team: 6th-grade class B
With: Teacher Liat Ben-Moshe
The idea: The entrepreneurship
students will help at the
kindergarten, which
accompanies the school, by
leading activities for different
topics to help the kids prepare
for 1st grade.
The venture: Health Kiosk
Kaplan
The team: 5th-grade class A
With: Teacher Ilana David
The idea: Hold a “Kiosk” once
every two weeks, which will sell
healthy foods, and whose profit
will be used to improve the
school and/or special
communities that need money.
The venture: The Library:
Reading is fun
The team: 5th-grade class C
With: Teacher Dina Lieberman
The idea: Liven up the library at
Kaplan school
The venture: Happy Stand
The team: 3rd-grade class A
With: Teacher Aliza Samni
The idea: Finding children that
need help and keeping them
busy with fun activities during
recess.
The venture: Israel embassy at
Kaplan
The team: 6th-grade students
With: Teacher Esti Pritas
The idea: Represent Israel
around the world using video
clips that showcase Israel’s
advantages.
The venture: Man Kel
The team: Bar, Anat, Guy,
Matanel, Orel and Karin
Description: A mop with a box
divided into two parts. One part
has cleaning products and the
other has water for cleaning
The need: Helping cleaners lift
cleaning products and ease the
cleaning.
The venture: Wake Up
Application
The team: Rotem Albukerk, Hila
Oved, Roni Sela, Or Sason,
Yael Galon, Max Zolotenkov
Description: App users set
goals, and get points for
reaching them. The points can
be used for different purchases
The need: Helping people who
struggle to manage their time.
The venture: Be careful helmet
The team: Eric, Stav, Shira, Hila
Ein Ali, Shahar Tepper and
Karin
Description: A hard helmet that
alerts you to dangers, with
accessories: a camera, a straw
connected to a water sack and
a sun visor
The need: Reducing the
number of injured motorcycle
riders.
The venture: How to cook?
Application
The team: Rony, Shaked Zamir,
Topaz, Ma’ayan, Dime and
Beatrice
Description: An app that lists
recipes based on ingredients
the user inputs.
The need: Finding a recipe by
input
The venture: Pachli, trash can
for the table
The team: Lea Igla, Noa
Lebovitz, Tal Matnia, David
Glazer and Liam Saprir
Description: A plastic trash can
divide into two parts and
attached to the table. One part
of paper and the other for trash
The need: Allow students to
throw their trash out without
disrupting lessons.
The venture: Scanmach
The team: Maya, Gal, Shoham
and Shelly
Description: A portable X-ray
that enables x-raying the body
effectively and easily, and sends
the data about the area that
was scanned, and offers various
treatment options: see a
doctor/stay home, etc.
The need: Identifying how
badly hurt you are.
The venture: Ta-Li
The team: Lior Saida, Michal,
Talia, Lior Shalom, Matan and
Lital
Description: A chair that
accommodates a bag and
school materials, and where
one can hang a weekly
schedule
The need: The material that the
student needs will be nearby,
and underneath the chair will be
a shelf for the backpack, so the
classroom will look nicer and it
won’t get in the way.
The venture: Opening
Drawer
The team: Amit, Adi, Ariel,
Ilan, Yarin, and Natalie
Description: A table that
opens upwards and has a
storage space to store daily
school supplies
The need: A product that
stores our supplies without
disrupting the lesson
The venture: “And you chose
life”
A joint venture for Kaplan
students in Petah Tikva and Beit
Israel school in Texas
The team: 6th-grade students
With: Israel Culture teacher
Efrat Inga and Together
Program leaders: Hadas Peled
and Rabbi Josh Herman.
The idea: Raise awareness for
youth in Israel and in Texas
about understanding and
appreciated the lives of
Holocaust survivors by holding
a number of meetings between
the generations.
Entrepreneurship Graffiti Wall at Kaplan
Like the page “Omer’s Butterflies”, you will receive a bracelet and you can
pass the bracelet on when you do a good deed towards someone else
The bracelet will be passed on just like the butterfly effect and you will
know that you began a chain of good deeds
The venture: Statue Chairs
The team: Aman El group, 5th
and 6th-grade students
With: Artist Shlomit Timor and
Art teacher Efrat Iger
The idea: Sculpting images
from paper mache onto broken
chairs.
Market stands during the
entrepreneurship festival at
Kaplan
Entrepreneurship Festival at Kaplan
Elementary School in Israel
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