Ideas worth spreading

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What a bike ride can teach you

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.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxTelAviv 2010, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TEDx.

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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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