2008 year		 School # 550, School # 274, School "Menahem" and ORT-St.Petersburg activities
February, 27 The seminar on using of interactive board on school lessons for teachers of distict schools was carried out in the School # 550 on the base of ORT Technology Centre
February, 26 Students of ORT School # 1311 (Moscow) visited the School # 550
February, 14 - 17 On the base of the ORT Technology Centre educational seminar on using of information technologies in school education for heads of schools of net "Or Avner" from Russia, Bylorussia, Latvia, Kazahstan took place in the School "Menahem"
January, 14 -18 Olga Tuzova and Tatyana Evdokimova, teachers of IT of the School # 550, Aleksey Rakovsik, teacher of the School # 274 and Anatoly Shperkh, teacher of the School “Menahem” and head of the ORT Technology Centre in the School “Menahem”, took part in the seminar for teachers of ORT schools in Kazan

2007 year
December, 6 Two teams of students of the School # 550 took the first and second places in the contest “Cup of Interactive 2007” – first interactive contest among students in the field of information technologies
November, 17 - 18 For the second year students of ORT School #550 took part in the World Robot Olympiad as a part of all-Russian team
October, 13 - 14 Expert meeting of heads of education took place in St. Petersburg with active support of the ORT-St.Petersburg Centre
October, 11 Meeting of administration of Centralniy district of Saint Petersburg took place on the base of ORT Technology Centre in the School # 550
September -
October		 Autumn Jewish holidays in Saint Petersburg's ORT schools
September, 1 New school year in the Saint Petersburg's ORT schools
June, 19 -20 Study seminar "Organization of approbation of study materials in schools regions included in the project of system of education informatization" took place in the School # 550 on the base of the ORT Technology Centre
May, 29 Grand opening of the new ORT Technology Centre in the Jewish School "Menahem"
May, 28 Inauguration of the ORT Technology Centre in the School # 550
May, 23 Mr. Yaroslav Drozd, the Consul General of Poland, visited the School # 274. Students of the school – participants of the trip to Poland within the project “March of the Living” made for the consul a presentation about their trip and told about their impressions from the country and places they saw
May, 15 Video conference for students of the ORT School # 550 and the ORT School # 274 with students of Jewish schools from Moscow, Ukraine and teacher of history and traditions of Jewish people, who was near the Western Wall in Jerusalem (Israel), was carried out with the support of the ORT-St.Petersburg Centre in the School # 550
May School # 550 won the grant in one million rubles within the priority national project "Education"
April, 14 - 19
May, 6 - 10 		Students of the School # 550 and the School # 274 took part in the international project "March of the Living" in Poland and in the program "Masa Shorashim" - trip to Belorussia's places of Holocaust
April, 5 There was meeting of students of the School # 550 and the School # 274 - participants of the project "March of the Living" with Mr. Yaroslav Drozd, the Consul General of Poland, in the Consulate General of Poland in St. Petersburg
March, 30 Chorus "Keshet" of the School # 550 took part in the International festival of Jewish children creative works "Light a Candle" in Moscow
March, 23 Project Day in the School # 550
January, 25 Seminar for teachers of Central district of the city devoted to the using of interactive boards on school lessons took place at the School # 550 on the base of the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre

2006 year
December, 16 - 23 Chanukkah at the School # 550 and the School # 274
November, 17 Meeting of city schools principals devoted to school informatization at the School # 550
November, 6 - 10 Teachers of the ORT Schools # 550 and # 274 took part in the ORT Seminar for teachers of mathematics
October, 24 Visit of Hartford-Federation (USA) delegation to the School # 274
October, 20 Grand opening of the ORT Technology Centre at the School # 274
September -
October		 Autumn Jewish holidays at ORT Schools # 274 and # 550
September, 29 School birthday celebration at the School # 274
September, 27 Action of solidarity with Israel students abducted in Lebanon at the School # 550 and the School # 274
September, 12 Olga Tuzova, Teacher of IT in the School # 550, was included to the list of best teachers of RF
September, 1 New School Year started at the School # 550 and the School # 274
July, 25 The School # 550 and the School # 274 principals took part at the seminar in London
May, 25 Last ring event in the School # 550 and the School # 274
May, 18 Members of Young Leadership Cabinet (USA) visited the ORT School # 274 ("Erushalaym")
May, 15 Jaroslav Drozd, Consul General of Poland Repablic, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
May, 15 ORT-St.Petersburg Centre presented ORT-Russia and the Centre projects to teachers of the School # 274 ("Erushalaym")
May, 12 Student of the School # 274 ("Erushalaym") took the first place at the ORT's Cup on intellectual games
April, 24 - 28
May, 7 - 12		 Participation of students of the School # 550 and the School # 274 in the "March of the Living" and the "Masa Shorashim"
April, 13 - 20 Pesach in the School # 550 and the School # 274
March, 24 Project Day in the School # 550
March, 23 Seminar devoted to the School informatization took place on the base of the ORT Technology Centre of the School # 274
March, 23 Purim in the School # 274
March, 18 Team of the School # 550 won the first prize at the International Competition of Robots
March, 14 Purim in the School # 550
February, 16 Supported by the ORT-Petersburg Centre the seminar on school informatization took part in the School # 550
February, 13 Tu-bi-Shvat in the School # 274
February, 10 Second round of city inter subject competition "Young Citizens of Petersburg" carried out in the School # 550
February, 1 Reel about the School # 550 as one of the most computerize schools in the city was shot by regional department of RTR TV company for program "Vesti"
January, 27 Owen Kemp, Vice-president of HP, Director of HP in Russia, and Karel Vavruska, Director of Development of HP in Russia, visited the ORT-Petersburg Centre and the School # 550
January, 16 - 20 Teachers of the School # 550 and the School # 274 took part in the ORT natural science seminar in Kazan

2005 year
December, 27 Thanks to ORT-Petersburg the seminar for teachers of city gymnasium # 408 was carried out in the School # 550
December, 23 Chanukkah celebration in the school # 550 and the School # 274
December, 14 City seminar for methodologists of Saint Petersburg took place on the base of ORT Technology Centre in the School # 274
December, 14 Meeting of representatives of city Comittee of Education, city Comittee on Informatization and Communitation with representatives of Institute of New Technologies took place in the School # 550 with the support of ORT-Petersburg
November, 30 Thanks to ORT-Petersburg seminar for principals of the Central District of Saint Petersburg took place at the School # 550
November, 25 Thanks to ORT-Petersburg the first round of the competition "Teacher of 2005/2006 Year" took place at the School # 550
November, 19 Chorus of the School # 550 took part in the concert carried out within the annual Festival of Jewish Book in Saint Petersburg
November, 15 Jewish museum opening ceremony in the School # 274
October, 4 - 5 Jewish New Year celebration in the School # 550 and the School # 274
September, 1 The Day of Knowledge in the School # 550 and the School # 274
August, 30 With the support of ORT-Petersburg the district pedagogical conference for school teachers of Central district of Saint Petersburg took place at the School # 550
July, 10 -24 Diana Furshteyn, the student of 10th form of the School # 550 ('ORT-Gunzburg' project) took part in the international seminar, organized by Rosner School in Great Britain
May, 25 Last Ring in the School # 550!
May, 24 The ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre congratulated the students of 1th form of the School # 550 with the special prize recieved on the competition of projects devoted to the 125th years of ORT
May, 17 The students of the School # 550 took part in the link up with Woman American ORT representatives - the guests of Moscow Vocational Training Centre
May, 6 Victory Day celebration in the School # 550
May, 3 - 8 The group of students of the School # 550 took part in the international project 'March of Living' in Poland
April, 16 The students of the School # 550 got the prize places at the Annual International Conference 'School Informatics and Problems of Sustainable Development'
April, 10 - 15 Within the 'Shorashim' program the group of students of the School # 550 and the School # 274 visited the places of Holocaust in Byelorussia
April, 7 Project 'ORT-OZET. Together or Instead?' created by the team of students of the School # 550, won the third prize at the competition of projects devoted to 125th anniversary of ORT
April, 4 - 6 Seminar for representatives of JDC CIS departments took place in the School # 550 with the support of ORT-Saint Petersburg
April, 1 Purim celebration in the School # 550!
March, 27 Film created by Video Studio of the School # 550 has won the first prize at the International Festival 'Purim Video 2005'
March, 18 Traditional Project Day in the School # 550
January, 19 Training seminar for school teams of Saint Petersburg - participants of forthcoming international competition of Logo robots is carried out in the School # 550 with the support of ORT-Petersburg Centre

2004 year
December, 15 Chanukkah Celebration in the School # 550  
October, 5 Teacher's Day Celebration!  
September, 29 Andrew Lovyagin, the deputy of Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg, visited the ORT de Gunzburg Centre and the School # 550.  
September, 15 Rosh-ha-Shana celebration in our School!  
September, 1 New school year started in the School # 550 (ORT-Gunzburg project)  
July, 13 UJC mission visited the School # 550 and the ORT de Gunzburg Centre  
April, 23 For the first time the ceremony of Bar/Bat Mitzva has passed for School # 550 students of 7-th and 8-th forms  
April, 16 School # 550 students took part in the "Educational Informatics and Sustainable Development Problems" international conference  
March, 23 Traditional Project Day in the School # 550  
March, 12 Purim celebration!  
February, 26 First distance lesson on video technologies for the 10th form students  
February, 26 City scientific practical conference on the informatics took place in the School # 550  
February, 24 Best ORT logotype competition was finished  
February, 15 The School # 550 students took part in the International Competition of Robots  

2003 year
November, 28 School anniversary celebration!  
September, 26 Rosh-ha-Shana celebration!  
September, 12 The "Judaica and Jewish Education" forum was openned in the School # 550  
September, 1 The new School Year started  
May, 14 "My Family History Within the City History" site created by the 8"A" and 8"B" School # 550 students has won the special prize for "the most personal site" in the "My Petersburg" competition  
May, 14 The School # 550 librarian Irina Alekseeva has won the second prize in the "Navigator" nomination of the "Bibliobraz" competition regional round  
May, 8 The Victory Day in the School # 550  
May, 7 The Israel Independence Anniversary Celebration in the School # 550  
April, 18-19 The School # 550 students took part in the "Educational Informatics and Sustainable Development Problems" conference  
March, 21 The Traditional Project Day was carried out in the School # 550  
March, 17-20 Purim Celebration  
March, 13 Web-design Competition of St. Petersburg Central district was carried out in the School # 550 with the ORT-St. Petersburg support  

2002 year
December, 9  School # 550 Student Team has won the second place on the International Robot Competition
December, 2-6  School # 550 students have become the Second Round World Competition of Jewish Identification prize-winners
December, 2-6  Hanukkah celebration in the School # 550
November, 26  'Leading Technologies in the Educational Institution School Program Context' seminar was carried out in the School # 550. It was realized with technical support of the ORT-Saint Petersburg Centre
November, 2  The School # 550 (ORT-Gunzburg project) site has been included in All-Russian Competition of Internet Educational Resources finalists
October, 4  The Teacher's Day celebration
September, 6  The Rosh Hashana celebration
September, 1  The new School Year started
May, 8  The Victory Day celebration in the School
April, 30  The Project Day was carried out in the School # 550
April, 24-26  Students of the School #550 took part at the International conference "Educational Informatics and Sustainable Development Problems".
April, 17 The Independence Day of Israel celebration
April, 15 "The prayer for Israel" meeting in the Big Horal Sinagogue
March, 26 The internal round of the City Project Olimpiad in information technologies was carried out in the School # 550
February, 27 The district tour of the Olimpiad in information technologies took place in the School # 550. It was realized with the technical support of the ORT-Petersburg Centre
February, 26 The celebration of Purim


2001 year
December, 14 The celebration of Hanukkah
November, 14 The meeting of the ORT-Petersburg Centre collaborators with pedagogical collictive of the School # 550 was carried out
September, 1 The new School Year started.
June, 21 The Third All-Russian scientific conference "Information technology in the modern school", initiated by Educational Committee of Saint Petersburg, was organized at the School #550.
May, 21 The rewarding of the best students took place in the Assembly Hall.
May, 15 The results of the annual school competition in Web-design were reckoned up.
May, 14 Avraham Ravitz, Deputy Minister of Education of Israel, visited the School.
April, 26 The City pedagogical seminar «The effective utilization of information techno-logies in the educational process. The experience of the School #550 and the ORT-St.Petersburg Centre for St. Petersburg educational specialists».
April, 13-14  Students took part at the International conference "Educational Informatics and Sustainable Development Problems".
April, 5  The first Word ORT 2001 Olympiad was carried out among ORT-CIS students.
March, 27  The 6th City Project Olympiad in new information technologies took place in the School. It was realized with technical and content support of ORT-Petersburg Centre.
March, 23  Project Day was organised in the School.
March, 7  Celebration of Purim.
March, 3  District tour of the Olympiad in Web-design called "Modern glance to the past" was organized by ORT-St.Petersburg Resource Centre by the order of the Educational Committee of the Central District of St. Petersburg.
January, 16  A regular "Meeting with an interesting person" has been organized for students from the primary school. This time children talked to Director of ORT-St.Petersburg Centre Vladimir Dribinsky.