Ideas change everything

What a bike ride can teach you

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Shimon Schocken |

TEDxTelAviv 2010

• April 2010

Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz.

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Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz.

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Shimon Schocken

Computer Scientist, Educator

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Shimon Schocken is a computer science professor and dedicated educator.

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