Attended Events

PyCon UK Conference is a conference held in Cardiff, UK, covering many subjects and contents regarding the programming language of Python and hosting professionals and students around the world. Since we acknowledge the importance of enrichment of their experience and knowledge in the field of programming, the different achievements they will gain in international environments and the relationships they will establish in these environments we encourage our students to take part in an international platform at this level with their own projects and presentations. Therefore, we have participated in PyCon UK Conference since 2017.

Previously held at Bilkent University and Yıldız Technical University, the competition will be organized for the third time this year. The competition concerns the development processes of automation of a vehicle. Considering that universities will also participate in the competition, we must encourage the participation of our students so that they could benefit from potential university collaborations.

One of the key robotics competitions in Europe, Robotex is organized in Tallinn, Estonia in 3 different fields. We encourage our students to participate in this competition, which has pioneered many innovations and inventions for digitalization in Estonia, in order to ensure that they have various experiences for entrepreneurship in the digital world. Therefore, we have participated in this event since 2018.

The Invention Challenge was inspired by the “Invention Challenge” organized by JPL-NASA engineers for their own entertainment since 1998 and open to the participation of secondary schools in South Carolina. It has the same format and content, being organized only in Turkey outside the U.S. We follow and take part in this event regularly each year.

The workshop of Mastering Physics is an international project which has been organized by CERN for the last 5 years, aiming to increase students’ interest and awareness in particle physics. Its Turkish organization has been undertaken by METU. Students take part in activities by simulating CERN experiments for 2 days in line with the training and materials received.

IJAS Conference Series take place in various cities across Europe and North America each year. The event aims to help academicians from a variety of disciplines and countries present their scientific studies on an interdisciplinary platform while also providing opportunities for them to share their research by using peer-reviewed journals of IJAS. If their scientific research and articles are selected, our students get the chance to defend these studies on an international platform and publish them in scientific journals.

Having an organization committee consisting of academicians from many respectable universities in the U.S. and Europe, such as MIT, Princeton, Lund, and McGill, the program of the international conference is considered to be among leading events in the areas of chemistry research and engineering. Students will apply for the conference with their research presentation and if selected, have the opportunity to present their projects to renowned academicians and get their feedback. Also being able to listen to many presentations, students will return with crucial gains by glancing at the world of scientific research during their high school years.

The purpose of WWF-Turkish Nature Pioneers Program is to provide guidance to children and their teachers based on the belief that children can change their surrounding first and then the entire society. For this program, secondary school students carry out the module “Water Angels” under the guidance of their science teachers. Within that framework, students are expected to write down and implement the nature projects of their design within the respective academic year. The selected ones among those projects obtain the chance to be represented in WWF Youth Conferences as well as various educational opportunities. Thus, we aim for children to become Change Leaders at their schools and within their families at first and then, in their neighborhoods and the entire society.

The Eco-Schools Program is carried out to educate preschoolers as well as primary and middle school students on environmental awareness, environmental management and sustainable development. With the inclusive approach of the program, students gain knowledge about environmental issues and take active roles for increasing the environmental awareness of their families, local administrations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Eco-Schools Program offers guidance to schools with respect to environmental education; moreover, it serves as a rewarding program since it offers the Green Flag award to schools which have been exceptionally successful in their studies for the program and their environmental education. The Green Flag is an internationally recognized and respected eco-label symbolizing an environmentally-conscious school. For the Eco-Schools Program, the students of Hisar Secondary School aim to study the theme of “recycling & waste”, organize events on this theme at their schools, create awareness around these issues and make their contacts and families more conscious on this topic in the two upcoming academic years.