2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
SUSTAINABILITY YEAR AT HISAR SCHOOL
We are raising individuals who are inquisitive, confident, ethical, and highly aware with the country’s leading academic staff.
Together with our 1,329 graduates and 1,667 students, we are working to build a sustainable future.
Information Strategies Center
As Information Strategies Center, we continue our efforts to ensure that information and communication technologies are included as a natural part of the education process.
Writing Center
In Writing Center, there is a friendly and comfortable environment where visitors are interested in their author identities and talked about writing. Educators aim to help develop ideas and express them in the most clear and effective way possible.
Innovation Center
Innovation Center is designed as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary platform to teach and learn with STEAM-oriented programs that support interaction with the technology community and the effort to achieve excellence in K-12 education.
University Counseling and Career Center
In our Career Center in accordance with the mission and vision definition of Hisar School, our primary goal is to guide and support our students in course selection, career orientation, university preparation-application and selection processes.
Fab Academy
We are proud to announce that Hisar School has become the first and only Fab Academy Node in Turkey, and the second at the K-12 level worldwide, as a testament to our ongoing commitment to excellence in computer science education.
Professional Learning Center
It is the first and only ESO (Educational Service Organization) accredited by NEASC in Türkiye.
PÖMER provides a system of innovative, creative, participatory opportunities and research environments by offering professional learning programs on national and international platforms that will support and develop the knowledge and skills of all School staff.
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Our Destination Imagination Team Won Turkish Championship
Our Destination Imagination team has achieved an outstanding victory, becoming the Turkey Champion in this year’s Destination Imagination competition!
Through their creativity, problem-solving skills, and teamwork, our students showcased exceptional innovation and strategic thinking, excelling in their category.
With this victory, our team has qualified to represent Turkey on the international stage, demonstrating their passion for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) and creative problem-solving.
We congratulate our students and mentors for this incredible achievement and wish them continued success in their upcoming challenges!
NoktaParantez Robotics Team Qualifies for the FIRST® Championship in Houston!
Our Hisar School Robotics Team, NoktaParantez, has achieved exceptional success in the 2025 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC), securing two of the most prestigious awards in the regional tournaments.
At the Bosphorus Regional, the team won the “Engineering Inspiration Award”, a distinction recognizing teams that inspire respect and appreciation for engineering and STEM fields within their school and community. Additionally, at the Haliç Regional, they claimed FRC’s highest honor, the “Impact Award” (formerly the Chairman’s Award), which is presented to teams that best embody the FIRST® mission, serve as role models, and create a lasting impact on society.
With these outstanding achievements, NoktaParantez has qualified to compete at the FIRST® Championship, taking place in Houston, Texas, from April 16-19, 2025.
Beyond their STEM outreach initiatives, NoktaParantez has demonstrated technical excellence in this year’s competition, ranking 4th among 186 FRC teams in Turkey and advancing to the semi-finals. Throughout both regional tournaments, the team showcased strategic gameplay, dynamic alliance collaboration, and high-level engineering skills, optimizing their performance against strong competitors.
This milestone highlights NoktaParantez’s dedication to fostering the next generation of engineers and STEM leaders. Their accomplishments reflect their commitment to promoting science and technology in the community, inspiring others through innovation and teamwork.
We proudly congratulate our students and their mentors from the Computer Science Department on this remarkable achievement. We are honored that NoktaParantez will represent Turkey on the global stage in Houston, and we wish them continued success at the FIRST® Championship!
PÖMER Coordinator Nilüfer Çağın Becomes ECIS Ambassador
We are pleased to announce that our Professional Learning Center Coordinator, Nilüfer Çağın, has become an ECIS Ambassador. ECIS Ambassadors play a crucial role within the international school network by informing school communities about ECIS and supporting their access to online ECIS trainings. Our ECIS membership enhances our access to comprehensive and effective professional learning programs, while our collaboration with ECIS – Professional Learning Center allows us to build strong and meaningful global connections with educators. We believe this partnership will continue to expand and grow in impact.
Our High School Students Qualify for the TEAMS Engineering Competition
Hisar High School Students Qualify for the TEAMS Engineering Competition at the TSA Conference in the U.S.
Our high school students, guided by their physics teachers, have successfully completed the TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science) competition, where they applied engineering principles to real-world challenges. Thanks to their outstanding performance, five of our teams have been invited to compete at the TSA (Technology Student Association) Conference in the United States!
From June 27 to July 1, 2025, our students will represent Hisar School at an international level in Nashville, Tennessee. Integrating physics knowledge with engineering applications, they have developed innovative solutions that align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addressing global engineering challenges.
By bridging science and technology with real-world problem-solving, this competition provides invaluable academic and professional growth opportunities for our students. We congratulate them on this remarkable achievement and wish them continued success in the upcoming competition!
Our High School Students Participated in the ACS Innovation Summit
Our high school students attended the Innovation Summit held at American Community School (ACS) in Athens on February 18-19, 2025.
The American Community School organized its first Innovation Summit in 2018, inspired by the Hisar Coding Summit, with the support of our computer science department and students. Since then, this collaboration has expanded to include the American Farm School in Thessaloniki and Queen Morta School in Lithuania.
In its eighth edition this year, our students participated in seven different workshops, including:
- Machine Learning for Kids
- Building Cardboard Robots with Microbit
- Constructing Bio-Inspired Robots with Lemon
- AR-Interactive Mechanical Systems: Automata
- The Depths of Cybersecurity: Thinking Like a Hacker
- Mathematical and Physical Modeling with Julia
- Idea Factory: Creating Your Own Startup
As part of the event, our students also had the opportunity to explore the historical and cultural richness of Athens. This experience helped broaden their global perspectives, foster a deeper understanding of different cultures, and provided inspiration for future projects through knowledge-sharing and hands-on collaboration.
We congratulate our students and teachers who contributed to this experience and wish them continued success!
Our High School Student Qualifies for the TÜBİTAK European Regional Finals
Our 11th-grade student, Emre D., has successfully qualified among the top 7 projects for the Istanbul European Regional Finals of the 56th TÜBİTAK 2204-A High School Research Projects Competition, competing against 85 submissions with his project in the field of geography and machine learning.
Emre developed his own generative AI model, AtlasGPT, a specialized tool designed for the geography field that creates maps based on user input.
We congratulate our student and wish him success in the finals!
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