TEKNO-SEL 2026: We Met with Future Technology Leaders
The TEKNO-SEL Technology and Robot Competition 2026, organized by Seljuk Municipality, Seljuk District Directorate of National Education and KOP Regional Development Administration in cooperation with the vision of "In the Turkish Century, We Are Also Present in the Construction of Turkey's Technological Future!", hosted valuable projects this year.
I was honored to serve as a jury member in this beautiful organization, together with my esteemed colleagues Prof. Dr. Sabri Koçer and Prof. Dr. H. Erdinç Koçer in the "Special Category High School".
In the jury evaluation process, we had the opportunity to examine 25 different projects prepared by our high school students in detail. The fact that the seminal ideas of our young people have turned into concrete and innovative applications is extremely proud for the future of our country. In particular, the projects produced in a wide variety of fields, from urban mobility solutions that support the vision of smart urbanism to systems focused on agriculture and nature monitoring, proved how sensitive and creative our high school youth approach current technological problems.
Our valuable teams, their advisors and team members, who were deemed worthy of the award with their innovative ideas in our category and shed light on the future, are listed as follows:
- AWARD: SmartPort Institution: Selçuklu Science and Art Center Advisor/Captain: Çağrı Kemal Erdal Members: Yavuz Mete Karagül, Ayşe Sahra Acar
- AWARD: S-Transportation-Dynamic Service Network Urban Mobiliti Institution: Karatay Science High School Advisor/Captain: Faruk Inan Members: Musa Buğra Parlar, Mustafa Yusuf Şimşek
- AWARD: PetekGöz Institution: Mahmut Sami Ramazanoğlu Anatolian Imam Hatip High School Advisor/Captain: Eyyüp Ensari Çiçekdağı Members: Ahmet Emre Bozgeyikli, Osman Erdem
JURY SPECIAL AWARD: ES WEATHER Institution: Akşehir Hacı Sıddıka Baysal Science High School Advisor/Captain: Soner Tasli Members: Münir Emre Aslan, Umut Filiz
Best Presentation: KONYAGEZ Institution: Selçuklu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Advisor/Captain: Serap Yılmaz Yenikaynak Members: Yusuf Osman Erçelik, Mustafa Alnıak
STAR OF THE VOTE: Forest Monitoring and Protection in Smart Urbanism Institution: Mehmet Tuza Pakpen Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Advisor/Captain: Atila Cuncu Members: Fatma Sude Yoluk, Asude Tahire Çolakoğlu
I would like to sincerely congratulate all of our students and their valuable advisors who guided them. I would like to thank the organizing committee and all the institutions that contributed to bring this enormous ecosystem to Konya by focusing on science and technology.
The future will rise in the hands of our young people who design it today!