Science workshop activities were held within the scope of TÜBİTAK science talks
Üsküdar University Young Minds Academy Director Asst. Prof. Nebiye Yaşar organized an event titled "I Have an Idea too" applied science workshop activities within the scope of TÜBİTAK science talks. The science workshop with the main theme of games and gamification was held at Büyükada Şehit Murat Yüksel Primary School and Heybeliada Primary School, which are affiliated to the Adalar District Directorate of National Education.
In the event held at Büyükada Şehit Murat Yüksel Primary School for the first time, 60 students aged 9-10 who went to the 4th grade participated in the science talks event.
In the application workshop, accompanied by Büyükada Şehit Murat Yüksel Primary School Principal Recep Kızılırmak, school teachers Ercan Yalçın and Ebru Çiftçi, who hosted the science talks, the students proposed solutions to the previously determined social problems.
Mindfulness techniques were implemented by Asst. Prof. Nebiye Yaşar
Within the scope of the event, problems were identified, and the problems in the envelopes they designed were presented to the students. Later, the students, who were selected by the commission determined under the coordination of Adalar District Directorate of National Education TÜBİTAK Coordinator Canan Pehlivan, shared their solution proposals in front of their friends and teachers. In the event, Asst. Prof. Nebiye Yaşar implement mindfulness techniques.
Students developed solutions to social problems
There were the following suggestions among the students' suggestions after the event: happy traffic, obesity hour, chair that can rise as much as they want for disabled individuals, dissemination of the use of electric vehicles for everyone related to the climate crisis, transformation of traffic rules into children's games to find solutions to traffic problems, clothes with motion sensors for visually impaired children, chair that provides exercise movements to strengthen muscles for paralyzed individuals, rainbow children's game, which is the student's own invention and strengthens communication, plate designs wherever there is water to save water, educational digital game idea (a game design in which the student says that sentence itself when you touch on the words or sentences that you have not read, which changes when the student presses the rectangular button), the idea of a safe area for every house related to disaster management, an earthquake robot for people who cannot provide an earthquake bag (thanks to its antennas, it will give an earthquake bag from the reservoir behind it to those who do not have an earthquake bag), robotic arms that can move them for children who cannot walk, whose arms or legs are paralyzed.
A student answered the question ‘What would you like to say to children your age in 2033?' as follows: "They should take their time and research everything. Since they are 9 years old, they should learn English before they are 12 years old. Let them spend their days resting for two hours, working for two hours, sleeping for ten hours, eating breakfast for thirty minutes, resting for thirty minutes in the evening, and two hours for their friends in the evening."
The second event was held at Heybeliada Primary School
The second event of the applied science workshop "I Have an Idea too" with the main theme of games and gamification was held at Heybeliada Primary School. 33 4th grade students in the age of 9-10 participated in the science talks event.
Heybeliada Primary School Principal İsmail Yurtsever, who hosted the science talks, and school teachers Derya Doğan and Nursevin Anatuna, accompanied by the students in the application workshop, brought solutions to the previously determined social problems.
The following suggestions were among the students' suggestions after the event: Draw attention to electricity saving by writing "turn it off if it is unused", Close zoos if children in 2033 hear me, release animals, stop the sales of cigarettes, soft drinks and beer, be kind to your mothers, I would like to innovate as much as Atatürk, turning waste into compost, mediation to ensure peace, doing what scientists say for the climate crisis, designing a math game by multiplying, dividing and rounding, sending pillows, water and food, game bags for disaster victims, do not complicate the school rules, so that everyone can obey, writing letters to the presidents of countries for a peaceful world, using as much water as I need to save water, everyone should plant saplings for a green world, we cannot socialize if we play with artificial intelligence, raising better architects to prevent earthquakes, opening a club for the visually impaired, educating children there, making traffic robots, giving the right of way to animals in traffic. On the 100th anniversary of the Republic, there were suggestions in the form of asking all of Türkiye to go to Anıtkabir and recite the National Anthem.
TÜBİTAK Science Talks participation certificate and commemorative plaque were presented
At the end of both programs, Adalar District Director of National Education Neşe Vural presented a certificate of participation and a commemorative plaque to Asst. Prof. Nebiye Yaşar for her knowledge and contributions in TÜBİTAK Science Talks.
Üsküdar News Agency (ÜNA)