Getting to know DRS, Merit scholar senior

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Starting high school could be a scary and nervous experience, but not for the incoming ninth-graders at Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere. At DRS’s annual get together for its new class, the 94 would-be freshmen took part in the school’s Yom Achdut event for the class of 2020.

Coming from more than 15 different elementary schools, next year’s DRS freshmen were selected from one of the largest pool of applicants in the school’s history. The boys heard from Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, and General Studies principal, Dr. Hillel Broder, among other administrators at DRS.

The students took placement exams in algebra and the Hebrew language to determine the appropriate classes for next school year, and then were rewarded with ice cream sundaes. Then it was fun time. Moving to the gymnasium for a game of concentric circles, where sitting across from a person they didn’t know were prompted to discuss an array of different questions to become acquainted. This was done in intervals of five minutes as all the boys got to know each other.


A competition then took place, where they were divided into groups for a unique egg drop competition. Each team was given a raw egg, and several materials. With the materials, the students were challenged to construct a contraption that would keep an egg from cracking when dropped from the DRS roof. The winning team of students each received gift cards to Dunkin’ Donuts — a DRS student hot spot.

Heimowitz is a Merit Scholar
Tzvi Heimowitz, of Woodmere, is a winner of the National Merit Scholarship Program. He is one of 2,500 Merit Scholars chosen from more than 15,000 finalists and more than 1.6 million students who applied. The DRS senior will receive $2,500. Award winners are selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who judge the applicants based on academic record, difficulty level of subjects studied, grades, two standardized test scores, contributions and leadership in school and community, a written easy and a recommendation from a high school official.