Fellow:Eren Anter


Name Eren Anter School (Cohort) Boğaziçi University (2022 cohort) Majoring in Political Science and International Relations Country Turkey Email beyanter@gmail.com

Bio

Eren Anter was born and raised in İzmir. After completing his high school education in Izmir, he started higher education at Bogazici University and moved to Istanbul. He completed the preparatory class last year by passing the BUEPT (Bogazici University English Proficiency Test) with an A, the highest grade. Currently, he is in his first year of undergraduate education at Bogazici University studying Political Science and International Relations.

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 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).

Recently, he is a Bright Fellow at Bright (Bogazici University Entrepreneurship Center) since he successfully completed the Fire Up Changemakers Program where Design Thinking methods such as creating "HMW" questions, Personas, Empathy Map, Business Model Canvas, Prototyping, and Brainstorming are taught to students and he was chosen as a candidate for Stanford UIF Program. He holds meetings at Bright with his team to spread the entrepreneurial spirit to his campus and support entrepreneurs at Bogazici University under the leadership of Oguzhan Aygoren, the faculty champion.