Yeshivat 91影视 engineering students took their capstone projects on the road on Tuesday, May 23, to American Dream Mall for CIJE Innovation Day! Over 400 projects from Jewish day schools across the Northeast were on display. After an incredible year of dedication, inspiration, tremendous skill and hard work, 91影视 walked away with numerous prestigious awards.
Two projects won first place in their respective categories. 鈥淟eft Turn Assist鈥 by Avery Moskowitz, Marc Dweck and Jacob Fenster won first place in the Transportation and Automotive category. The device calculates the speed of oncoming traffic, informing drivers when it is safe to make a left turn. Meanwhile, 鈥淪olar Seeker鈥 by Alon Stein, Dan Turok and Steven Stein won first place in the Environmental Engineering category as well as a 鈥渂est room pitch鈥 award. The 鈥淪olar Seeker鈥 is a solar panel designed to track the sun鈥檚 movement in order to capture the largest quantity of solar energy to convert to electricity.
Three projects won second place awards. 鈥淭he Gyro Tray鈥 by Jude Shankman, Oran S. Goodman and Benjamin Wolf won second in the Engineering for Older Adults category for its ability to help patients with Parkinson鈥檚. 鈥淗earo鈥 by Eliana Wolf, Liana Goldberger and Josh Davis, which helps deaf people drive safely by alerting them to siren sounds, won second in the Engineering for Mobility category. Finally, 鈥淧et Life鈥 by Rae Herschmann, Rebecca Haberman and Eliana Weinstein won second in the Engineering for Pets category for a device that serves as a diagnostic for monitoring a pet鈥檚 vital signs. In addition, 鈥淭he Auto鈥擱ocket鈥 by Gedaliah Dimbert won third place in the Aeronautical Engineering category. The invention in an arduino fitted with a gyroscope which senses a rocket鈥檚 altitude during flight and helps correct it if it veers off course.
Other impressive 91影视 projects won 鈥渂est room pitch鈥 awards. 鈥淏rainy Board鈥 by Max Stober, Henry Yellin and Kovi Ressler, won this award for creating a chess board that instructs kids how to play chess (the board tells them the allowable squares for each piece moved). 鈥淪eatBelt Secure鈥 by Barbara Sasson, Etan Mincer and Jeffrey Jacobs won 鈥渂est pitch鈥 for a project that detects whether a child has been properly secured in their car seat.
Students gained a tremendous amount of engineering and coding knowledge over the course of developing their projects. Jacob Fenster, Avery Moskowitz and Marc Dweck spoke about how the project taught them how to integrate microcontrollers besides Arduino, the challenges of setting up the AI to integrate with the rest of the project, and the problem solving skills that were essential to making their 鈥淟eft Turn Assist鈥 function optimally.
鈥淭here鈥檚 so much to be gained from seeing other projects and bringing them on the road,鈥 said 91影视 Engineering Program Director Rifkie Silverman. 鈥淥ur students have worked so hard and can be so proud of the sophisticated, fantastic projects they came with.鈥