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Awards Pour In for Bahçeşehir Communication Students Again This Year
The winners of the 22nd Young Communicators Competition, organized among Faculty of Communication students by the Aydın Doğan Foundation to contribute to the development of qualified media professionals and managers, have been announced. The awards were presented to the successful students at a ceremony held at the Istanbul Hilton Hotel on 7 December.
With 20 students entering the competition, Bahçeşehir University won a total of 13 awards, becoming the university with the second-highest number of awards in the 22nd Aydın Doğan Young Communicators Competition after Erciyes University. Among foundation universities, Bahçeşehir University once again kept first place, as it did last year. Bahçeşehir students brought their university 3 first places, 5 second places and 5 third places. Bahçeşehir students, who also achieved great success in last year's 21st Aydın Doğan Young Communicators Competition, had won 14 awards, 7 of them first places.
924 PARTICIPANTS
924 students from the Faculties of Communication of 28 universities entered the competition, held in the categories of Print, Visual, Audio, Advertising, Public Relations and Internet Publishing, with 922 works. Of these universities, 76 projects by 139 students from 20 universities won awards.
Delivering the opening speech at the award ceremony, Candan Fetvacı, Chair of the Executive Board of the Aydın Doğan Foundation, said: "In the 22nd year of the Young Communicators Competition, in addition to the increase in the number and quality of participants, the fact that young people who received awards in our previous competitions continue to succeed in the media sector today shows that our efforts have not been in vain and strengthens our hopes for the future."
Following the award ceremony, Aydın Doğan, Chair of Doğan Media Group, presented a pin to the deans of the universities that succeeded in the competition. Evaluating this year's competition, Haluk Gürgen, Dean of the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Communication, expressed his satisfaction with his students' achievements, saying: "We have succeeded again this year with the awards we received in the Aydın Doğan Foundation Young Communicators Competition. Receiving awards in this competition every year shows us that we are on the right path. I thank our faculty members, staff and students who contributed to our receiving these awards."
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN ADDITION TO AWARDS
First-place winners received the Aydın Doğan Foundation Award Statuette, a cash prize of 1,000 TL and a D-Smart box; second-place winners received the Aydın Doğan Foundation Award Statuette, a wristwatch and 2 books; and third-place winners received the Aydın Doğan Foundation Award Statuette and 2 books. Award-winning students are also given the opportunity to take part, between July and September, in programs lasting one to three months designed to increase their professional knowledge and experience at newspapers, magazines, television channels and radio stations of Doğan Media Group.
For the list of Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Communication students who won awards in the competition, click here.
