Implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education, Baykar and Turkey Technology Team Foundation (T3 Foundation), students from Baykar Science High School represented Türkiye in the American Mathematical Olympiad (AMO), which was attended by 12,000 students from all over the world online.
27 of the school's 36 students who competed in the Olympics were successful, winning 7 gold, 3 silver, 11 bronze medals and 6 honorable mentions.
The students who achieved two important degrees at the Fibonacci World Robot Olympiad & ITECX College 2025 in Italy received the Special Jury Prize in the Entrepreneurship-Softtech category and became world champions in the Line Following Robot category.
The students supported by the T3 Foundation as part of the “National Teams of Technology Support Program” attracted attention with their achievements in both organizations.
World Championship in the Line Following Robot category
The captains of Avengers and Outlier, the teams that returned from Italy with honors and the students who won medals at AMO spoke about their adventures of success.
Burak Tecirli, a Grade 9 student of Baykar Science High School and captain of the three-member Avengers Robot Team, said they were very happy to win the World Championship in the Line Following Robot category in the competition.
Tecirli stated that their project goal was to design a robot that could negotiate the runway in the shortest possible time, emphasizing that they had been working on the robot for months and that they had paid more attention to the software in particular.
Tecirli thanked his teachers for their support and said: “It was an honor to represent our country in a competition. Our school offers us workshops, computer science courses and teaches software programming. This way we can write code. I want to be a good engineer working in a good company.” he said.
They developed a work coach with artificial intelligence
The captain of the Outlier team, 10th grade student Tılsım Çalık, stated that they were happy that they were deemed worthy of the jury's special prize in the “Entrepreneurship-Softtech” category.
Çalık explained that their project is a customizable learning coach with artificial intelligence that allows students to make their learning process more efficient, pointing out that the study coach provides students with important support in points such as focusing, planning and performance analysis.
Çalık said: “We achieved great success in the first international competition we took part in and are proud to represent our country well.” he said.
Çalık explained that he wanted to become an aerospace engineer since he was a child and that he tries to develop himself by developing projects in the fields of technology and software and that he wants to represent his profession in the best possible way in the future.
Gold medalist in mathematics
Baykar Science High School Preparatory Class Student Yasir Yıldız, who received the gold medal in the American Mathematics Olympiad, said that he prepared for the Olympic classes through mathematics studies with the support of his teachers.
Explaining that he prepared in a short time of two to three months by solving many questions that could be asked in the Olympics, Yıldız said: “It was a high-level mathematics exam that covered Olympic mathematics topics. It was a 25-question exam. I was very interested in mathematics in high school and had participated in the Olympics before. Mathematics is a very entertaining branch of science, I like solving mathematics, and the same applies in preparation. My connection to mathematics is stronger than to other subjects.” he said.
Elif Ahsen Şahin, a preparatory class student who won a gold medal at the Olympic Games, said that she tried to learn some senior mathematics subjects herself in high school, but she had no experience of learning direct Olympic subjects.
Emphasizing that he learned some subjects with the support of his school, Şahin said: “The subject that attracted my greatest attention was Combination and Probability because it is included in many advanced things in the world, including computers or physics. That's why it generally attracted my attention. I thought I would get a bronze medal, but I got a gold medal, I am very happy.” he said.
Teacher pride
Hüseyin Yıldız, the high school's Olympic guidance teacher, said that they held the American Mathematics Olympiad exam at the school, one of the biggest competitions this year, and that many of his students received medals.
Yıldız expressed his pride in his students and said: “This is just the beginning, we want to achieve similar successes in other competitions. Our school is new, but our students were very familiar with mathematics.” he said.
Yıldız emphasized that they intend to represent Türkiye in the best possible way at the final exam of the competition in Singapore.
Baykar Science High School Principal Vedat Karabayır also stated that it is a school that implements a special program and said:
“It is our greatest desire to take a leadership role and succeed in all areas. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who provides us with this opportunity. Baykar is, in a sense, growing his seedlings in his own garden. The interior that has hosted Baykar so well.
Mahmut Sami Basaricı, who supports the students as a representative and technology coordinator of Baykar Science High School T3 Foundation, said that they were satisfied with the results achieved by Baykar Science High School students in the competition, which was attended by 623 teams from 18 countries.
Basarici said: “We value students having a global vision that strengthens our country's national technological thrust. In this context, we want our students to participate in international competitions so that their projects and robots can participate in the global competition. We experience the certainty of pursuing our goals one step further with the motto “The only difference between dominant nations and condemned nations is a handful of educated people.” gave his assessment.
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