We are striving to ensure that children have the opportunity to spend safe, valuable and effective time in this new world they are entering, while implementing projects that will enhance children's competence to become producers, not consumers, in the online world.
Whiz Kids
With the Whiz Kids project in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education, Turkcell aims to introduce Turkey's gifted students to technology to discover and develop their abilities at an early age. The facilities offered to students in the Whiz Kids Laboratories we have established include laptops, 3D printers, smart board, electronic and robotic coding sets and tool kits.
Children are trained and developing projects in artificial intelligence, coding, space sciences, robotics, smart home and cloud technologies. At the beginning of 2019, thanks to the new generation Whiz Kids education platform utilizing the Open edX infrastructure used by universities such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, 20,000 children are aimed to be introduced to the project with online education and Whiz Kids application by 2020.
DQ
The digital world and technology harbour extraordinary opportunities for our children, as well as very real risks. Students are using the power of the internet and mobile technologies to explore, communicate and learn. But this brings many issues - from online bullying, to privacy issues, to the uncertainty of what information is to be trusted on the internet, to the agenda of families and educators. For this reason, we introduced the DQ application to Turkish children aged 8-12, free of charge, to understand our children’s ability of screen time management against virtual risks and to make them informed citizens of the digital world.
