Attended Events

Our students gain experience in generating, developing and presenting project ideas with teamwork or individually through academic programs offered at Hisar School alongside student clubs, workshops, and seminar activities. As part of this experience, our students participate in events organized in local and international platforms with projects and club activities, and fill us with pride thanks to their successful results.

First Robotics Competition

FIRST designs accessible and innovative programs which motivate young people for aiming at education and career opportunities in the areas of science, engineering, technology and math while also improving their self-confidence and life skills. One of the programs of FIRST, FRC is a program created for high school students. Before the competition, the robotics team consisting of our high school students works cooperatively to design a robot which can successfully complete the given tasks and gains a fair amount of knowledge, skill and experience in the areas of mechanics, electronics, and programming. Being a significant part of the team, the students in the entrepreneurship group carry out lots of activities for building the visual and institutional identity of their team, conducting their social media communications, and finding sponsors and resources. During these activities, students improve their skills greatly with regard to expressing themselves and their views, presenting ideas, finding resources, creating a brand and taking part in entrepreneurship.

As such, our robotics teams have been gradually established since 2015 for the purpose of participating in the First Robotics Competition (FRC). Our students have acquired unique experience and skills throughout this process. Our FRC Robotics Team, NoktaParantez, continues its activities, obtaining successes in the FRC.

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Vex Robotics Competition

In its second year, the Mechaminds team, which started its activities as the first VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) team in Turkey, is active with four different teams under the umbrella of Hisar Mechatronics, having a more inclusive structure.

Throughout the year, VCR gives the students the chance to obtain the skills of STE(A)M by focusing on teamwork and effective communication, which are considered to be the fundamental life skills of the 21st century, and to test this process with a variety of tournaments taking place all year long. Producing robotics and engineering design projects based on different themes in each academic year, students continue their work throughout the year and make constant revisions to actualize their dreams.

During the process supported by after-school works at the level of high school as well as the mechatronics lessons provided to the 10th and 11th grades, students can transfer what they learn with regard to mechanical systems and electronics to their long-term memory. Awarded by juries in various areas of different tournaments they participated in during the process, the teams of Hisar Mechatronics are well-positioned to become the engineers of the future.

Volunteering in all stages of each tournament organized in Turkey in 2017-2018 and gaining the relevant knowledge during this process, the team of Hisar Mechatronics also held its own tournament with the participation of 15 teams in the academic year of 2018-2019. The teams of Hisar Mechatronics provided guidance to many teams by way of training organized for 2 days and set an example to all teams for sensitive professionalism with its struggle in the tournaments.

Technovation Challenge

Technovation Challenge is an international event providing opportunities to female students around the world in the areas of programming, product development, entrepreneurship and leadership. Each year, female students around the world define a significant issue in their community and try to find a solution via this platform.

Technovation Challenge, in which we have participated since 2012, covers the areas of programming, product development, entrepreneurship and leadership. As part of this project, many secondary school and high school students tackle global problems, develop a mobile application focusing on solution and complete the process with a comprehensive business plan to materialize the application. For this purpose, we have participated in the competition of Technovation Challenge since 2012.

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PyCon UK Conference - Cardiff, İngiltere

PyCon UK Conference is a conference held in Cardiff, UK, covering many subjects and contents regarding the programming language of Python and hosting professionals and students around the world. Since we acknowledge the importance of enrichment of their experience and knowledge in the field of programming, the different achievements they will gain in international environments and the relationships they will establish in these environments we encourage our students to take part in an international platform at this level with their own projects and presentations. Therefore, we have participated in PyCon UK Conference since 2017.

Teknofest Istanbul Aviation, Space and Technology Festival

In order to ensure that our students improve their knowledge of programming, software, and hardware in the area of technology and gain the skills of leadership, entrepreneurship and organization while also having experience in those respects, we have taken part in various categories of Technofest since 2018.

OpenZeka MARC Competition (Mini Autonomous Racecar Competition)

Previously held at Bilkent University and Yıldız Technical University, the competition will be organized for the third time this year. The competition concerns the development processes of automation of a vehicle. Considering that universities will also participate in the competition, we must encourage the participation of our students so that they could benefit from potential university collaborations.

Robotex International Competitions - Estonia

One of the key robotics competitions in Europe, Robotex is organized in Tallinn, Estonia in 3 different fields. We encourage our students to participate in this competition, which has pioneered many innovations and inventions for digitalization in Estonia, in order to ensure that they have various experiences for entrepreneurship in the digital world. Therefore, we have participated in this event since 2018.

Invention Challenge (NASA JPL Invention Challenge)

The Invention Challenge was inspired by the “Invention Challenge” organized by JPL-NASA engineers for their own entertainment since 1998 and open to the participation of secondary schools in South Carolina. It has the same format and content, being organized only in Turkey outside the U.S. We follow and take part in this event regularly each year.

Mastering Physics ODTÜ

The workshop of Mastering Physics is an international project which has been organized by CERN for the last 5 years, aiming to increase students’ interest and awareness in particle physics. Its Turkish organization has been undertaken by METU. Students take part in activities by simulating CERN experiments for 2 days in line with the training and materials received.

Google Science Fair

Google Science Fair is an online science competition held globally each year with the sponsorship of Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic, and Scientific American. Students participating in this competition have the opportunity to share their solutions to problems observed in their surrounding with the world.

International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference - USA, Harvard and MIT University

IJAS Conference Series take place in various cities across Europe and North America each year. The event aims to help academicians from a variety of disciplines and countries present their scientific studies on an interdisciplinary platform while also providing opportunities for them to share their research by using peer-reviewed journals of IJAS. If their scientific research and articles are selected, our students get the chance to defend these studies on an international platform and publish them in scientific journals.

15th International Conference on Environmental Chemistry and Engineering - Rome, Italy

Having an organization committee consisting of academicians from many respectable universities in the U.S. and Europe, such as MIT, Princeton, Lund, and McGill, the program of the international conference is considered to be among leading events in the areas of chemistry research and engineering. Students will apply for the conference with their research presentation and if selected, have the opportunity to present their projects to renowned academicians and get their feedback. Also being able to listen to many presentations, students will return with crucial gains by glancing at the world of scientific research during their high school years.

International Conference on Environmental and Natural - Munich, Germany

The conference is organized by the International Academy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Management (IASTEM), being open to applications around the world. Our students’ presentation reports for the conference will be published on the World Research Library. Still, the selected articles will be reviewed and published by International Journals.

CERN BLS4 Beamline Project

It is a high school competition organized by CERN for the last two years. The competition offers a fully-equipped beam line and various detectors to students. High school students design an experiment with these resources under the guidance of their advisors. They describe their experiments with the help of a 1000-word text in English and a video under 1 minute. The winning group is invited to CERN and gets the chance to perform their experiment for 10 days. Our student group of 9 continues to prepare for this project.

European Network for Environmental Citizenship (ENEC - Cost Action CA16229)

European Network for Environmental Citizenship (ENEC) aims to improve the understanding and assessment of environmental citizenship in European societies and participating countries. With our environmental projects and studies, we want to take part in this network in which we were included for action plan COST 16229.

ChemCYS (Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists) - Belgium

Since 1976, the conference of ChemCYS has been organized by the Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV), which is among the respectable chemical societies of the world. Being held for the 14th time in 2018, the conference hosts researchers from 31 different countries and helps them share their knowledge about the latest developments in the relevant fields as well as the future practices. Bringing academicians, researchers and industrial representatives together, the conference aims to reach postgraduates and master’s degree students. We follow and participate in this conference with our high school students.

GSL Global Goals Competition

The purpose of GSL Global Goals Competition is to increase the awareness of students about global citizenship and to actualize their ideas. Students prepare a project which aims to achieve one of the Global Goals of United Nations; then, they carry it out and improve their social awareness.

World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) Turkey Nature Pioneers Program

The purpose of WWF-Turkish Nature Pioneers Program is to provide guidance to children and their teachers based on the belief that children can change their surrounding first and then the entire society. For this program, secondary school students carry out the module “Water Angels” under the guidance of their science teachers. Within that framework, students are expected to write down and implement the nature projects of their design within the respective academic year. The selected ones among those projects obtain the chance to be represented in WWF Youth Conferences as well as various educational opportunities. Thus, we aim for children to become Change Leaders at their schools and within their families at first and then, in their neighborhoods and the entire society.

TURCEV Eco-Schools Program

The Eco-Schools Program is carried out to educate preschoolers as well as primary and middle school students on environmental awareness, environmental management and sustainable development. With the inclusive approach of the program, students gain knowledge about environmental issues and take active roles for increasing the environmental awareness of their families, local administrations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Eco-Schools Program offers guidance to schools with respect to environmental education; moreover, it serves as a rewarding program since it offers the Green Flag award to schools which have been exceptionally successful in their studies for the program and their environmental education. The Green Flag is an internationally recognized and respected eco-label symbolizing an environmentally-conscious school. For the Eco-Schools Program, the students of Hisar Secondary School aim to study the theme of “recycling & waste”, organize events on this theme at their schools, create awareness around these issues and make their contacts and families more conscious on this topic in the two upcoming academic years.

Rome International Conference for Schools (RISC) - Rome, Italy

Since 2018, International Science Fair for Schools has been organized by the Association of International Schools in Europe within Rome International Conference for Schools. The purpose of this fair is to support the interest of participating students from various countries in science and offer them the chance to share their views. The competition, whose theme was “Innovation for Success, Science and Environment” in 2018, will also be held in 2019 to be participated by our students with their unique projects on nature.