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Betül KELEŞ GOOD EXAMPLES IN EDUCATION

BEST PRACTICES
INSPIRING STUDENTS

A BRIGHT JOURNEY OF PERSEVERANCE THE POWER OF PERSEVERANCE

Bilgi Su Çakın graduated from Denizli Hilmi Özcan Anatolian Sometimes a small interest can grow into a big success with
th
effort and belief. Burak Altıparmak is an 11 -grade student at
High School and now she is a student of English Interpreting
Yalova Prof. Dr Halil İnalcık Anatolian High School. He studies in
and Translation at Ege University. Bilgi Su has shown that
the English-intensive branch. In addition to school, he attends
determination, thoughtful planning, and a love for learning can Tekno Akademi, a computer and robotics coding academy
transform challenges into achievements. Spending her first supported by the Ministry of National Education. There, he
two years of high school online, she used that time wisely to learns about future technologies through hands-on engineering
activities. Burak started coding because he was curious. Over
discover her passion for languages and set her goals accordingly.
time, this interest led him to an international competition. He
Through careful daily planning, perseverance, and the support
joined the Fibonacci International Robotics Competition in Italy
of her teachers, family, and friends, she overcame and won first place in the ‘line follower’ category. In this
moments of exhaustion and doubt. Her journey category, robots follow a special path. Burak and
demonstrates that success is built step by his team competed with 620 teams from 16
different countries. This success made
step, guided by curiosity, consistency,
Burak very happy. It was his first time
and self-belief.
abroad, and the other teams were
As she advises, “Do not very strong. However, he trusted
hesitate to ask questions his team and stayed confident.
During the competition, Burak
to your teachers. Making
used English to explain how
mistakes is alright; their robot worked and
instead of blaming how they programmed it.
This experience helped
yourself, focus on Bilgi Su ÇAKIN Burak ALTIPARMAK him feel more confident.
what to learn.”
LEARNING ENGINEERING A
WITHOUT LIMITS İkram TÜRKERİ Alper BÜYÜKÇELİK GLOBAL FUTURE
İkram Türkeri Clear goals and hard
graduated from Erzincan work can help people
Fatih Vocational and achieve their dreams.
Technical Anatolian Alper Büyükçelik’s story
High School. Today, as is a good example of this.
a Computer Programming When he was a high school
student at Erzincan Binali Yıldırım student in Kahramanmaraş,
University, he shows how passion Alper was successful in his lessons
can transform simple beginnings into and also active in social life. He joined
inspiring achievements. A curiosity for building school clubs, worked on projects, and enjoyed
and programming electronics sparked İkram’s journey teamwork, which helped him improve himself both inside
through robotics courses, TÜBİTAK projects, and an Erasmus+ and outside the classroom. Today, he is studying Electronic and
internship in Spain. These experiences advanced his technical Communication Engineering at Istanbul Technical University.
skills and strengthened his belief that technology and English Through Erasmus+ programmes, Alper visited different
are universal languages that connect the world. At university, countries, met people from many cultures, and learned how
he combines programming with innovation to develop projects important communication and co-operation are. At university,
that improve aviation safety, which he believes will strengthen Alper plans his studies carefully and takes responsibility for his
Türkiye’s technological capacity. Actively involved in mentoring future. He also founded an international student community
and international projects, he encourages students to start that brings together many young people from different
where they are, reminding them that “success is not about countries. In the future, Alper wants to develop useful
resources but about belief.” technologies and inspire students by showing that belief, effort,
and responsibility can shape a successful path.
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