BAU Student Among 13 Students Selected by Apple Worldwide

Emirhan Erdoğan, a third-year Software Engineering student at Bahçeşehir University, has been the only Turkish student to attend Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) for the past two years.

This year, the number of students who applied with projects to the 'Apple WWDC Conference,' which admits two types of guests—paying attendees selected by lottery and students who earn their place with their projects—was 4,000. Emirhan Erdoğan, a 21-year-old third-year student in the Department of Software Engineering at Bahçeşehir University, once again this year, as last year, succeeded in being the only Turkish student among the 13 students selected from among all scholarship recipients and given the opportunity to meet Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of the international press. Emirhan Erdoğan was also the youngest of the 50 people selected as mentors for 'Google Launchpad,' the startup support program Google runs worldwide every year.

Developing software and designs for Apple platforms, Emirhan is the founder and organizer of an event group called 'TurkishKit.' With the support of BAU, where he studies, he meets on the first Saturday of every month with students who, like him, want to design and develop applications in the Apple ecosystem. In addition, he brings to market the applications he develops at Appyist, the company he founded. Some of the projects bearing his signature are Arifoğlu, Lala Eğitim, Stubridge, UserVision and Clapper.

In his presentations, Emirhan provides training aimed at high school and university students. In the 'Hello iOS' training held with BAU's support and under the leadership of Garaj at the BAU Galata Campus Mac Lab , he gave a 6-week course to groups of high school and university students. At the end of the 6th week, 2 students published their first applications on the App Store. After WWDC, he also shared his experiences with many young people through his presentation titled 'An Experience Beyond Dreams,' which he gave at 20 different educational institutions.

"I PROMISED TO INSPIRE MANY STUDENTS"

Saying that he has promised to inspire many students, Emirhan said: "The applications I saw on the screens of phones sold for 3,500 TL bothered me. Aiming to address this gap in Türkiye, we work with startups and corporate companies with a team of 5 people aged between 20 and 40. With the projects we develop to reveal the perfect harmony and potential between artificial intelligence and Apple, we have adopted the mission of setting the limits first in Türkiye and then in the world."

Explaining that he won a scholarship from Bahçeşehir University, where he studies, Emirhan said: "Bahçeşehir University is a university that selects and evaluates its students according to their talents. I think it is a leader in Türkiye in understanding and rewarding qualities that cannot be measured by written exams. In addition to their success in the university entrance exam, students who come here discover and are evaluated for the scholarship opportunities that the areas in which they developed themselves during high school can open up for them. Thanks to it being a university that also evaluates real-life achievements beyond academic success, I won a 50 percent scholarship, and I think this is a great advantage."