Bahçeşehir Students Keep Winning Awards

Bahçeşehir University students have once again won award after award this year. While Bahçeşehir took first place in the Türkiye finals of the "International Imagine Cup Software-Design" competition and at the Golden Compass Public Relations Awards, the "Conscious Children" project brought an award to Computer Education and Instructional Technology (BÖTE) students. At the Aydın Doğan Young Communicators Competition, communication students received a shower of awards.

FIRST PLACE IN THE MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP GOES TO BAHÇEŞEHİR!

In the "International Imagine Cup Software-Design" competition, organized by Microsoft since 2003, Bahçeşehir University students Onur Yazıcı, Gizem Aktürk, Ünal Akyüz and Okan Kılıç took first place in the 2011 Türkiye finals. The team represented Türkiye at the world finals held in New York.

THE GOLDEN COMPASS GOES TO BAHÇEŞEHİR STUDENTS

First place in the "Young Communicators" category of the "Golden Compass Public Relations Awards," held for the tenth time this year by the Turkish Public Relations Association (TÜHİD), was won by Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Communication Department of Public Relations students Osman Nadir Aydın, Dicle Yüksek, Sezen Akpolat and Derya Topal with their project "Social Media: The Indispensable of Communication." A total of 175 projects had applied for the 10th Golden Compass Public Relations Awards in 16 categories and 12 subcategories.

"CONSCIOUS CHILDREN" TAKES FIRST PLACE!

Students of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology (BÖTE) achieved a significant success. At the 5th National BÖTE Student Congress held at Yıldız Technical University on 20-21 May 2011, BÖTE students won first place in three and third place in one of the project competitions in 4 categories open to BÖTE students from 50 different universities.

Among 48 projects in the Educational Software category, Hakan Pehlivan, Derya Arkın and Miray Darıcı won first place with the project "CONSCIOUS CHILDREN," and Hakan Pehlivan and Derya Arkın won third place with the project "MATH ADVENTURE"; among 20 projects in the Educational Video category, Elif Bayraktar won first place with the project "OUR DENTAL HEALTH"; and among 25 projects in the Graphic Design category, Derya Arkın and Hakan Pehlivan won first place with the project "BRING BOOKS CLOSER."

A SHOWER OF AWARDS FOR COMMUNICATION STUDENTS

The Bahçeşehir Faculty of Communication received a shower of awards at the Aydın Doğan Young Communicators Competition, held for the 22nd time this year.

With 20 students taking part in the competition, Bahçeşehir University won a total of 13 awards, becoming the university with the second-highest number of awards at the 22nd Aydın Doğan Young Communicators Competition after Erciyes University. Among foundation universities, Bahçeşehir University once again held on to first place, as it did last year. Bahçeşehir students won 3 first, 5 second and 5 third places for their university. Bahçeşehir students, who also achieved great success at last year's 21st Aydın Doğan Young Communicators Competition, had won 14 awards, 7 of which were first places.