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Gönül AK TAPPENDEN Murat KUVVETLI GOOD EXAMPLES IN EDUCATION

THIRD PLACE IN BIOLOGY

AT TÜBİTAK 2204-A FINAL COMPETITION
ESKİŞEHİR ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL, The app allows patients to follow their
ESKİŞEHİR treatment under a clinician’s supervision and
communicate with the clinician.
Students from Eskişehir Anatolian High
School—Erenay Akdoğan, İlayda Özdalgın, They also designed personalised
and İrem Akıncı—won Third Place in headphones that work with the app
Türkiye in Biology at the TÜBİTAK 2204-A and allow users to listen only to sounds
th
56 High School Research Projects Final selected by the clinician. The headphones
(May 25–28, 2025). Their advisor was a were designed in TinkerCad and produced
biology teacher, Tuğba Tuncel. with a 3D printer. group, the mice moved less in total, walked
a shorter distance, and spent less time in
The students tested white, pink, and
The project tested an Android application the ‘open arm’ (a specific area in the test).
based on Tinnitus Retraining Therapy brown noise on mice using behavioural White noise almost cancelled out the
(TRT). They developed an original app called experiments. They used the Locomotor effects of the tinnitus sound. However, the
‘EAL TNTS’ for tinnitus patients. According Activity Test and the Elevated Plus Maze study suggests that all types of noise might
to their research, it is the only Android Test. The tinnitus sound changed how the help lower anxiety in mice. These results
app in this field with a Turkish interface. mice moved. Compared to the control are important for future studies.

THE SMART GREENHOUSE PROJECT
THAT REACHED THE PRESIDENT

AT TÜBİTAK 2204-A FINAL COMPETITION
YAHYA KEMAL BEYATLI ANATOLIAN When the soil is too dry, the system waters
HIGH SCHOOL, ELAZIĞ the plants. It gives only the right amount
of water. When the temperature is too low,
The Smart Greenhouse Project is from the system turns on the heater. This keeps
Elazığ Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Anatolian High the plants warm. The plants always have
School. It is an automatic farming system good conditions to grow, day and night.
that helps plants grow without much help The project saves water and energy. It also
from people. Unlike normal greenhouses, means people do not need to check the
this system uses sensors and software greenhouse all the time. Farmers can trust the country. The students went to the
to control the environment. The sensors the system to care for the plants. Harezmi Education Model Exhibition in
measure soil moisture, air temperature, and Istanbul to show their project. The Smart
humidity. The software works like a brain. It The project won trophies at TÜBİTAK 4006 Greenhouse Project is not just a school
gets the data from the sensors and makes and TÜBİTAK 2204-A science fairs. Then it project. It is an award-winning system that
good decisions. became famous in Türkiye. The President shows how technology and farming can
chose it as one of the top 14 projects in work together for a better future.
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