At the Award Ceremony of the Year's Best which was arranged for the first time this year Prof.Dr.Ömer Çomaklı, the rector of Atatürk University, received a prize in the field of academic project.
The ceremony took place in the conference hall in Erzurum High School. At the ceremony where the awards were given in a lot of fields, from education to art and from sport to business world, the high school students showed a great interest in it.
As a result of the poll which was conducted towards high school students, Prof.Dr.Ömer Çomaklı, the rector of Atatürk University, who was awarded in the field of academic project, expressed that Türkiye has a great potency in the meaning of young population and these brilliant young people are the main factors to shape the next vision of our country. Çomaklı said that the growth of individuals who both are good at school,  know national and moral values and have full knowledge of technological necessities of the age is very important in the sense of Türkiye's future.
Rector Çomaklı told the young that they must have an aim and study too much in order to reach this aim and he added, " Have a project which you desire a lot in your life. Study too much to obtain it. In this way you can fight against the cases in which popular culture makes people ineffective in the best way. A young person who has got an aim comes in useful for both himself / herself and mankind. Hereby, I wish our young people to keep their education lives successfully and thank everybody that has a hand in."