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=== MEET – Middle East Education through Technology ===
[[MEET – Middle East Education Through Technology|Middle East Education Through Technology]] (MEET) is an innovative educational initiative aimed at creating a common professional language between Israeli and Palestinian youth. Working together with the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[MIT]]), MEET enables its participants to acquire advanced technological and leadership tools while empowering them to create positive social change within their own communities.

Program founders Yaron Binur, Anat Binur, and Assaf Harlap became aware that many Israelis and Palestinians never get a chance to interact with one another on a personal level, even though they grow up and live a few short miles from one another. Inspired by their experiences of multicultural cooperation in international educational institutions, the founders decided that a fast-paced, intensive program in technology would be an ideal medium to bridge the divide. With this vision, they created MEET in the summer of 2004.

MEET seeks excelling Palestinian and Israeli high school students; admission into the program is very competitive. Once admitted, students meet continuously for three years. Their first summer includes instruction in basic Java programming; this extends into the first yearlong segment of the program. The second summer includes more advanced topics in computer science and introduces a business and entrepreneurship curriculum. The program is capped by a long-term project beginning in the second yearlong segment and extending into a final summer term. Alumni activities maintain the student network after graduation.

MEET graduates have been accepted into top universities in the region and abroad, including the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/meet-tt0919.html|title=Unique Middle East program rooted at MIT bears fruit|author=Greg Frost, News Office|date=19 September 2007|work=MIT News}}</ref> The skills and bonds of friendship forged by MEET students, combined with the students' natural talents, prepare them for a successful future of leadership, achievement, innovation, and cooperation.

Aside from its partnership with [[MIT]], MEET has been supported by the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] (which has donated lab space for the summer sessions since MEET's inception), [[Al-Quds University]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], and other national and international organizations,<ref>[http://meet.mit.edu/board.html Partial list of MEET's supporters] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720001934/http://meet.mit.edu/board.html |date=July 20, 2011 }}</ref> as well as many individual volunteers from around the world.<ref>[http://meet.mit.edu/ MEET's Website]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828192533/http://meet.mit.edu/ |date=August 28, 2016 }}</ref>