Another marking period, another winner. This time the winner of the coveted iPad 2 was Jacob Khovov, 9th grade. Jacob – an avid reader, put in the most effort on increasing his odds of winning the raffle. There are many ways to get tickets for the Sinai’s Extra-Credit iPad Raffle but it is the EXTRA effort that gets the student the tickets. Hopefully, they will learn an important lesson in life: only those that go the extra mile get the reward.
David Storobin – a contender for the State Senate seat vacated by the disgraced former senator Carl Kruger – spoke before an assembly of Sinai Academy students on Friday February 17th. He spoke about how he, when still a high school student, got involved in politics during the early days of Giuliani’s run for Mayor. David relayed the impression that his volunteerism had left upon him: yes, an individual can and does make a difference! He encouraged the students to get involved in their communities, their neighborhoods.
David also discussed some of his key issues – jobs, economy, education. “When adults are struggling to find work” – he said – “teenagers have a much more difficult time at it, as many of the standard student jobs are being filled by grown ups”. He promised to create a palpable job creation initiative if he is elected.
Mr. Storobin was invited to pick the winning ticket for the the Third Marking Period Extra Credit iPad Raffle. The winner of the iPad 2 for the latest marking period was Jacob Khovov.
He also played a game of Ping Pong with Rabbi Katzin.
Honors for the third marking period and 1st semester at Sinai.
The following students made it to the Principal’s List (if their average was above 85):
Benni Avshayev
Michael Davidovitch
Daniel Gavrielov
Gary Levin
The following students made it to the Dean’s List (if their average was above 90):
Jonathan Bekker
Isaac Boltyansky
Ariel Ben-Simon
Sam Gechtman
Mais Gurshumov
Moshe Kababeh
Jacob Khovov
Michael Kozak
Judah Swed
Daniel Yakutilov
Sinai Academy is a Jewish High School in Brooklyn NY.
On Friday, Moshe Berman – a college student and also a partner with Microsoft’s DreamSpark initiative, visited the school to share with students the beyond-gaming capabilities of Microsoft’s Kinect as well as other Microsoft open source programs.
This year’s Skylines – an annual ‘Chinese’ auction benefiting Sinai Academy – will take place on January 21, 2012 at King’s Terrace.
This year’s event saw an increased amount of prizes sponsored by Sinai alumni – a truly heartwarming phenomenon. There is no private school out there that is able to maintain all of its varied curricular and extra-curricular activities strictly with tuition funds. Jewish schools in particular carry a heavier financial burden as a result of the dual curriculum. External sources of funding are always necessary and extremely beneficial to the continued growth of the school. Each new year we see an increase in the financial involvement of Sinai’s students of the past in helping us build Sinai’s future.
We express deep and sincere thanks to the following alumni (and their wives) for helping make this year’s auction possible:
Mr. Avrohon Zavulunov
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Biberman
Mr. and Mrs. Aryeh Leib Grinberg
Dr. Daniel Feldman
Artie and Michelle Shaykevich
Mr. Eddie Beylin
Oleg and Olya Saitsky
Dr. Dovid Shtrambrand
Mr. Moshe Borukhov
Mr. Andrei Khaimov
Mr. Eddie Dzhurinskiy
Mr. Andrei Dzhurinskiy
Mr. Ben Kanaev
Mr. Yitzchak Mizrahi
Mr. Jonathan Gavrilov
Mr. Albert Davydov
Mr. Doni Rybakov
Special thanks to Pesach Gelfand for the Sinai Auction website.
For information about the auction call 718.256.7400 ext.210. (evening phone: 917.696.4953)
www.sinaiauction.org
Location
King’s Terrace
815 King’s Highway (between E 8th and E 9th)
Brooklyn NY 11230
Time:
7:45 PM – 12:00 AM
The $100,000 MEGA RAFFLE Drawing will take place on February 4th, 2012.
Josh Sniper, 9th grade, with assistance from Michael Kosayev, 10th, made this domino setup, which took a few good hours to set up and only a few but glorious seconds to break.
The annual Chanukah celebration was loads of fun and excitement sprinkled with the usual speeches and words of wisdom from the Rabbis. There was dancing, jumping, fire juggling and good food (which went pretty fast and needed to be reordered). Current students and past students dropped in to say hello and share the holiday celebration with their school.
He was utterly disappointed when he didn’t win the prized iPAD on the first try (and almost gave up trying), but as all good things that come to those who wait, the coveted piece of gadgetry did become his on the second try. David Koyenov was the winner of the our second marking period extra credit iPAD raffle.
{The iPAD raffle works like this: You work extra hard, you get raffle tickets. More tickets – more chances to win. Every two months Sinai Academy raffles off an iPAD.}
After the class trip to the Intrepid, a group of Sinai students sat down for a meeting with one of Sinai’s alumni. Alex Raytberg, class of 1996, is now a senior analyst at Amber Capital hedge fund. Alex has been eager to give back to his old school; he wanted to share some of his knowledge and financial insight with the current Sinaians. It wasn’t simple to set up this meeting, which everyone hopes can be repeated on some semi-regular basis, but after some schedule shifting and planning, the class met up with Alex in the city right after his day at the office and the classes tour of the Intrepid.
The intro to present value analysis and the shwarma were well received by the students. They also bombarded him with all sorts of questions on many topics such as the current economic crisis and politics.
The Band – an untitled group of Sinai students – finally set up the room for practice. First performance, this Saturday night, December 10th.
