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| Negev youngsters assemble photo-vaultic cells. | During April an innovative Challenge of Sport Seminar was held at Nitzana for students specializing in sport at high schools in southern Israel, mainly in development towns. The program, supported by the Rashi Foundation, was held within the framework of Nitzana's science program and its strategic decision to add a sports component to the subject.
"By concentrating on the physiological aspects of sport and using the popularity of sport among many teenagers, " explained Nitzana Director David Palmach, "Nitzana hopes to attract students to science, who might not otherwise be interested in the subject."
About 120 students participated in the seminar, which was organized by Nitzana's staff together with medical students from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and sports and fitness experts from the Wingate Institute. During the seminar students were able to use their own bodies as a kind of personal laboratory as they felt and monitored its reactions to different types of exertion and strenuous exercise. The seminar demonstrated an important pedagogical principal - that if the subject is interesting enough and close to the student's interests and personal experiences, then it is possible to effectively teach the most complex subjects.
As part of Nitzana's "Sport and Science" strategy, the sports complex planned for the Jewish Agency residential village will also serve the students and general population of the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council. Shmuel Rifman, Head of the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council is committed to promote the proposed sports complex and is actively seeking strategic partners who can help fund the planned facility.
Nitzana is an ideal location for a sports complex. Far from congested highways and polluted cities, the village has already hosted triathlon (running, swimming and cycling) competitions and desert orienteering programs.
In addition, a "Science and Sun" pre-Pesach camps was held at Nitzana. The fifth to twelfth grade youngster from southern development towns learned about solar energy and built photo-vaultic cells to store the sun's power.nbsp;
Nitzana News Bulletin: May 2003
 The Nitzana Educational Community is Partnered with the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado.
Nisan 5763 - April 2003
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