World Partnerships Q3 Spotlight!
Al Nayzak “Tech Talent 2023”
STEM Mission from the West Bank & Gaza
August 12-19, 2023
From August 12 – 19, 2022, thirty-three “Tech Talent 2023” award winners, teachers and Al Nayzak team members traveled to Florida for a STEM education mission. The second Tech Talent STEM Mission organized in partnership with World Partnerships, Inc., these students from the West Bank and Gaza had on-site visits to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral), Walt Disney World "Disney Imagination Campus" (Orlando), the University of South Florida Judy Genshaft Honors College, the “USF Connect” Student Incubator, the USF Nault Center for Entrepreneurship (Tampa), Palestinian entrepreneur Husein Atari, the Richard O. Jacobson Technical High School (Seminole), Seminole High School (Seminole), St. Petersburg College’s STEM Lab (Bay Pines), and the St. Petersburg College Innovation Lab (Seminole).
Tech Talent 2023 was implemented by Al Nayzak in partnership with the U.S. Department of State's Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and under the auspices of the Higher Council for Innovation and Excellence. Al Nayzak is an independent educational and scientific organization founded in Jerusalem in 2003. It is a non-profit, non-partisan organization specializing in education, mentoring and research in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and other educational and applied sciences and Vocational and Technical Training. Through its work, Al Nayzak empowers innovation and entrepreneurship. Al Nayzak was founded by a distinguished World Partnerships IVLP alumnus (2013), Mr. Aref Husseini, who was named one of the first US Department of State International Visitor Leadership Program "Gold Stars" for his vision and tireless work to establish this organization. |
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