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= '''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022''' =

== '''STRATEGY #1 : CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS''' ==

=== Project: BUmentor ==='''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin ===Project Details===BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work? *Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation. <br /> == '''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS''' == ===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School==='''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

BUmentor ''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''  ''-Chris Grosser'' The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is a student counseling project between prep essential, we believe that our career, and 1st grades therefore our career plans, and 3rd our awareness of entrepreneurship were and 4th gradesshould have been formed at least in high school. This project is based However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.   As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on senior students mentoring this subject. And we found something new entry that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about their experiences such as classesI&E: extremeDesign Summer School.  extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, Erasmuswe will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, careersand this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, internshipswe need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and clubsthe programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. One The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.<br /> ==== Theoretical and Practical Education ==== * '''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the aims here is basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to adapt new students give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.* '''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the school training as much an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as possible in Fire Up.* '''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and to create career awarenessreal problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. SoIn this part of the program, how the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.* '''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program . In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process. <br /> ==== Extreme Design Challenges ==== * At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work?, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.