Mission Possible
As part of the 50th year anniversary of the establishment of the Health and Education Foundation, the school’s umbrella organization, the finalists of the Mission Possible Project Competition in grades 10 and 11 in the affiliated high schools presented their projects to SEV Board members and administrators.
TAC’s 10th graders, Ali Ata Ediz, Hasan Berhan Demirhan and Gönül Meliha Manav, successfully delivered their presentations in Istanbul on May 25th, 2018 under Mission Possible, sponsored this year for the first time for the schools of the Health and Education Foundation.
Ali Ata and Hasan Berhan’s project titled, "BİZ Scholarship", aims to generate a scholarship for students who can not afford to study at TAC through a fund created with donations from students and school staff. The reason for the name, “BİZ" (We), is that TAC students wanted to use the name of a historical wall bulletin at TAC which only featured anecdotes, activities and traditions unique to students and the school. They also wanted this name to be a symbol of the unity of the TAC family, as indicated by the fact that the students and school staff will be the owners and sponsors of this fund.
The second project from our school was “ONO" by Gönül Meliha Manav. The aim of this project is to create a website for TAC students, who have an intensive work schedule, in order to help them be better organized with their homework. Currently at TAC, assignments are posted in Google Classroom. This system does deliver the basic user needs. However, there is a very important issue which is often overlooked. When teachers of a given subject assign homework, such as projects or the date of quizzes, they may be unaware of the fact that in other classes, there is the same kind of load. This causes several deadlines which fall on the same couple of days as well as multiple quizzes given on the same day, not to mention intense and time consuming homework assignments before exam week which may prevent studets from studying for the exams, which can add a considerable amount of stress on students. The "ONO" project was developed to allow for an even distribution of homeworks and quizzes, enabling all teachers who teach the same homeroom to see the assignments given in other classes besides their own subjects, and to minimize the accumulation of an excessive workload on students.
Both presentations, made in English before a jury panel at Foundation headquarters in Istanbul, were liked by the jury and each was awarded 5000 TL for the implementation stage. We congratulate the students who created these two projects and wish them continued success.