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Our LAPIDIM students took first, second and third place in Microsoft’s Hawking Competition, part of the Microsoft Breeze program, a summer program run by Microsoft and open to outstanding students. This year’s program focused on the worlds of cyber and included lectures, practical workshops and a series of technological competitions and challenges.

On September 13th, Google hosted a special VR event for the LAPIDIM program students at the Google Haifa office. During the event, students met up with a technical program manager, Adva Glasner, which explained about the work Google is doing in the VR field, including fun demos. Rom Herskovitz, LAPIDIM Alumni and a Google engineer, presented a VR project he did as part of his degree. Before having a delicious lunch and ending the day, we had a panel for the students and explained more about life at Google.

The LAPIDIM students were guests of the Microsoft Research and Development Center in Herzliya. During their visit, students listened to lectures about innovation and chatbots, toured Microsoft’s accelerator, participated in a drone workshop, and explored Microsoft’s garage. Using a special machine for cutting laser, the students tried their hands at preparing key rings with their names on them and then took them home as souvenirs.

Following the end of their exams, students in the LAPIDIM program visited Google Haifa. They heard about the technologies being developed in Israel and were entertained together with Google’s engineers by Google’s new card game, “Launch & Iterate”, which simulates the process of launching a new Google product.