Memories—Miscellaneous

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, I came across with my photos from fantastic events while checking my external harddisk. Most of them are from the last year and I just wanted to share them with you in this post.

This photo above is from April 2013, during my salutation to Mr. Turgut Senol who is the founding general manager of the Teknopark Istanbul. I had the chance to meet Mr. Senol in February 2013, in a presentation that I made. During that presentation, I had a great chat with Mr. Senol about automotive industry in general and a possible Turkish car brand. Relatedly, I shared my ideas for establishing a mid-class green car brand.

 Again, I am with Dear Mr. Senol while he is so kindly honoring me by announcing me to the audience as an "Automotive Genius". That's why there is a smile on my face :D

Here, I am on the stage with Ms. Yagmur Karalar in a commemoration event for Turkish artists and scientists in October 2012. I performed a Turkish scientist Prof. Mustafa Inan and Ms. Karalar was the actress Afife Jale.

And lastly, this precious moment is from March 2013 while I am making the opening speech of the Science Week.

CharityOnBoard is Ready with its Board of Ambassadors!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In June 2013, I have so proudly founded CharityOnBoard, a student social responsibility project aiming to increase awareness among the society for charities. On its blog and Facebook pages, CharityOnBoard (as a sort of billboard for charities) shares a variety of charity foundations' posters, fundraising campaigns and events from all over the world. It also shares charity messages with its own social responsibility themed content.

Since its founding in June 2013, CharityOnBoard has reached over 1000 people/followers on social media. Our family has grown, therefore CharityOnBoard's board of goodwill ambassadors (consisting of my lovely teachers, friends and family) is created to reach more people. Our ambassadors are going to have a pivotal role for that purpose by actively sharing CharityOnBoard and its posts mainly through social media.

I am with Bahcesehir College High School's Principal Mrs. Serpil Eren, an honorary ambassador of CharityOnBoard. 

Our Facebook page is open on her PC :D  

As the founder and director of CharityOnBoard, I would like to express my honour of being a member of this precious board. We are going to continue to work with an aim to increase awareness among the society for charities. I would like to end my words with CharityOnBoard's thanks message:

(P.S. My earlier brief post in June 2013 heralding the founding of CharityOnBoard is merged with this post.)

Delight of Being the Head Judge of a Competition

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

On this tuesday, we, Bahcesehir High School for Science and Technology, hosted a science competition for 8th grade students from Florya Bahcesehir College. It was a science activity for 80 primary school students in which they were challenged with mind games, chemistry experiments and problems. All students competed as teams. Place of the event was the panoramic study area of our library, my favourite place in our high school. And delightfully, I was the head judge of the competition. Photos from the event are below :D

Here, while making an announcement for the teams. I am in between my dear classmates Arda and Bugra.

Above, I am checking the answers of the teams.

At the end, I delivered the award certificates to the members of the winning team. To cut long story short, it was definitely a great day for me with the delight of being the head judge of the competition.

Nomad Science Museum Truck Started to its Journey

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

On April Fools' Day, BHSSciTech (Bahcesehir High School for Science and Technology, Istanbul/Turkey) Nomad Science Museum Truck is launched to spread science around Turkey. Its journey started from Bahcesehir College Primary School in Istanbul. I was in there as a volunteer demonstrator for popularizing science among visitors especially students and children by explaining some basic scientific phenomena.

I preferred the roof of Bahcesehir College Primary School to spot our science truck. It was windy so my hair is a little bit messy. Also from there, a section of our suburban town Bahcesehir's skyline and our apartment building can be seen easily (the tall dark orange building on the right side).

Above, inside our Nomad Science Museum Truck, I was showing the relationship between Pascal’s Triangle and probability calculations to a group of primary school students. They were highly interested, so listened me kindly with a great attention :D

At the end, being involved in this precious volunteer work was a great honor for me, as a person who aims to exalt science that is giving back to the society.

World School Launch at Bahcesehir University

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

On 18th of January, Apple and Bahcesehir-Ugur Educational Institutions launched the Bahcesehir College World School Concept which features a partnership in interactive education technologies. Proudly, my classmate Izel and I hosted the event at Bahcesehir University. Academicians and Turkish press were among the audience. Apple’s Director of Retail Channel EMEIA Michel Coulomb and Bahcesehir-Ugur Educational Institutions Chairman Enver Yucel were among the speakers. And Turkish TV channels broadcasted the event.  

The overall atmosphere, at the stage and backstage, was full of excitement. So kind and helpful team accompanied us during the event. Not just the event; preparations, rehearsals and the last checks enabled me to gain a first class experience. And of course, all of them brought me a great pleasure.

ISTEK Schools Science Projects Competition

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

My precious advisor Mrs. Ergen and I were at the final of the ISTEK Schools Science Projects Competition. We exhibited our project "Kimyatronik Radon Detector" in there. It is a radon detector which consists of an ionization chamber and an ammeter. It detects radon ions according to current changes in the ionization chamber.

With our prototype, brochures and all other materials, we were stunning in there. It was a great pleasure for me to present our project to the competition judges.

At the final, we were announced to the stage. We have been awarded the 3rd place prize in Chemistry out of 209 projects (in all categories). A big round of applause accompanied me and my advisor. Our trophy was a cut-glass award cup. And of course congratulations :D