To ensure our students are equipped with this understanding, the Ecology Summer School brings them together for a unique educational, social, and Jewish experience.

The two-week Spanish-language course is attended by students aged 15-17 from schools in our Spanish-speaking countries, including Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, who intend to pursue an ecology-related discipline in their post-school education. They spend two weeks at the Soberanía National Park in Panama, where they develop their investigative skills through independent field projects assisted by scientific experts and teachers.

Sessions have included the study of leaf-cutting ants, hummingbird behavior, agouti diets, and butterfly colour preferences. Students interact with researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in topics such as amphibian decline, bird mist-netting, plant physiology, and bat research at night.