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Dr. Noa Ragonis is a senior lecturer at Beit Berl College. Holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Bar-Ilan University, and a master’s degree and a PhD in the instruction of computer science from the Department of Science Teaching at Weizmann Institute of Science. She has completed her postdoctoral studies in the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion.
Has an extensive experience in teaching computer science both in high schools and in academia. An expert on computer science pedagogy and she conducts studies and publishes articles in this field. For the last six years has been teaching courses on the subject of “computational thinking” and published position papers on this subject.

Prof. Orit Hazzan has been a staff member in the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion since 2000. Her area of research is the instruction of computer science, software engineering and data science. Between 2007 and 2010 she served as chairperson of the subject committee of high school computer science in Israel. Between 2011 and 2015, Prof. Hazzan served as the dean of the Faculty. Between 2017 and 2020, Prof. Hazzan served as the dean of the certificate studies program at the Technion. Further information can be found on her personal website.

Dr. Ayelet Bukai is a dentist who has completed a professional retraining program in software engineering, and more recently an additional retraining program in the instruction of computer science at Beit Berl College, where she was exposed to the subject of computational thinking. A graduate of Tel Aviv University School of Dentistry, class of 1990, and for many years she has worked as a clinic manager, both in Clalit Health Services and in a private clinic. In 2002 she completed a master’s degree in software engineering at the National University in California, where she worked as a website programmer and designer. Over the last few years, before her retraining in education, she has worked in the med-tech industry in Israel.