The exhibition, hosted by Atatürk University, where the projects participating in TUBITAK 12th Secondary School Students Research Projects - the Erzurum Regional Competition took place was opened.
 The Rector of Atatürk University Prof. Dr. Ömer Çomaklı, Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Mayor Eyüp Tavlaşoğlu, Aziziye Mayor Muhammed Cevdet Orhan, TUBITAK Secondary School Students Research Projects Regional Coordinator Prof. Dr. Erdal Karaduman and a large number of academicians, teachers and students participated in the opening ceremony at Atatürk University Continuous Education Research and Application Centre (ATASEM).
 TUBITAK Secondary School Students Research Projects Regional Coordinator Prof. Dr. Erdal Karaduman, indicating that the founding purpose of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) is to support the activities of scientists and young people dynamically, stated that this competition was an important organization and said that "The 12th Secondary School Students Research Projects Competition was organized under the heading 'This Is My Work' in National Education until 2017 and from this year on, these projects are incorporated into TUBITAK and put into practice.''
 Karaduman emphasized that the projects that are not invited to the competition should not be considered as not good, and pointed out that the jury made compulsory elections due to the fact that the activity was a competition.
 Rector Çomaklı: "We Should Raise Awareness of Our Children's Being Able to Generate Projects at an Early Age"
 Prof. Dr. Ömer Çomaklı, Rector of Atatürk University, who stroke up that they did not only give importance to education but also the technological developments were among their priorities as a university stated that: "We must educate our children in the early years in line with the awareness of producing a project and scientific thought'' referring to a proverb: ''as the twig is bent, so grows the tree.''  and he added that : ''Only in this way, we can bring our children's rich imagination world into being a productive and fruitful structure. As you all know, today the most expensive investment tool stands as a human being. The investment made for younger generations may give fruit after many years, but the return of this investment is as big as the labour given.''

''We Shouldn't Give Opportunity for Those Who Want to Internally and Externally Tempt the Minds of Our Young People Who Are the Assurance of Our Country.''

As the science producing institutions of the country, we must protect the investments made for the future generations and do our best to prevent them from being bereaved. We shouldn't give opportunity for those who want to internally and externally tempt the minds of our young people who are the assurance of our country. In this respect, we must fully educate our children both in terms of knowledge and skills as well as national and spiritual values. We should bring up our children as individuals who have the future vision of our government by supporting the education given in our schools with activities like this.

"We do not doubt that our children will offer great contributions to our homeland and humanity"

Rector Çomaklı who expressed that they were very happy to be part of this project which was organized for the settlement of the project culture in the mind of our children and produced more successful results every passing year stated that: ''There is no doubt that our children, whom we connect with great hopes, will transform the richness in their imaginary world into concrete projects and offer great contributions to our homeland and humanity. Hereby, I intimately greet our young people who are among us with their precious projects today, our teachers and administrators who support them and guide them with regard to the project generation. I would like to thank all of my friends who have carried out this process with all this effort and self-sacrifice and wish that the work done will conduce to the benefit of our country and our people.''

Project awards will be given on March 29

In the competition organized in 8 fields consisted of Turkish, biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, value education, coding and history, preliminary evaluations of the projects were carried out by the regional juries composed of expert academicians belonging to universities. According to the preliminary evaluation results, 80 projects, in each of the 12 district central provinces, and a total of 960 projects were invited to participate in the exhibitions in the district competitions. Academic juries will evaluate all the projects during the exhibition. The awards will be given to the project owner students and their advisors who have showed success in each area as  "first, second, third" with the ceremony to be held on March 29th.

The exhibition, which includes the projects participating in the Erzurum Regional Competition, will be visited by students, teachers and citizens who are interested in science at Atatürk University Continuous Education Research and Application Centre until the evening of March 28th.

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