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In his high school years, he was an enterprising, proactive, and multitasking student. The extensive readings in many different disciplines that he started in the 10th grade were noticed by his teachers. Thanks to his predisposition in philosophy, he participated in the 24th Turkish Philosophy Olympics and organized a series of seminars in his school to increase the awareness of high school students about philosophy. In the meanwhile, he was the vocalist and the guitarist of his school band for a year and attended many high school music competitions.
Last year, he attended the YetGen project, which is a 21. Century Skills education program where I he acquired basic career skills such as career planning, presentation techniques, teamwork, Excel, and introduction to coding. Also, in an entrepreneurship competition held in YetGen, called GirişGen, his team's business idea was selected as one of the top 20 startup ideas under his leadership. As a reward, he had the opportunity to give a 1-minute elevator speech in the YetGen live broadcast, watched by more than a thousand people. He considers this program as an igniter for himself where he added a lot of skills to his skillset such as presentation techniques, teamwork, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
Also, he has been publishing videos on a Youtube channel named "Kumsal ve Eren" (15K+ Subs). The main purpose of this channel is to raise awareness among Turkish high school students about the university exam. He developed his academic coaching system and has been mentoring for over a year and worked with more than 30 students with flexible hours. Likewise, he was a content creator and a member of Youtube Opencall at BÜYAK (Bogazici University Operations and Research Club).