Programs

The Türkiye edition of FIRST LEGO League Challenge, run by Bilim Kahramanları Derneği: teams of 4-10 young people aged 9-16 design and code a LEGO robot and carry out an innovation project on the 2026-2027 theme BIOGLOW.

• Grades 9–10
• No fee

Teams design and build electric vehicles to set technical requirements and race them; high-school students can enter the Electromobile category.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Need-based scholarships at Robert College (Istanbul) for students who earn a place through LGS but whose families have limited financial means; about a quarter of students receive aid.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

A series of one-week residential mathematics camps in Şirince led by Mustafa Yağcı, each on a curriculum topic (numbers, trigonometry, functions, calculus, triangles) for grade 9-12 students and graduates; 2027 dates are not announced yet.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee: ₺23,900

Year-round support from the T3 Foundation for high-school and university student teams preparing to represent Türkiye at international technology competitions.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Week-long MEB culture-and-history camps in Ahlat, Diyarbakır, Şırnak, Erzurum, Amasya and other cities that bring lise students from across Türkiye to explore historic sites, with seminars, workshops and sports.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Türk Eğitim Vakfı's merit scholarship for students who ranked in the top 5,000 of their YKS score type and are in prep, first or second year of university.

• Grades not published
• No fee

A six-day residential calculus camp in Şirince during the mid-year school break, for grade 11-12 students and graduates, taught by Mustafa Yağcı; 2027 dates are not announced yet.

• Grades 11–12
• Fee: ₺23,000

Taiwan's Ministry of Education Taiwan Scholarship, administered for Turkish nationals by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Mission in Ankara, funds bachelor's and graduate degrees in Taiwan.

• Grade 12
• No fee

Non-repayable monthly scholarship from the Association for Supporting Contemporary Living (ÇYDD) for successful high school students in financial need at state schools.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

Nationwide Ministry of National Education contests in which lise students enter short films, choirs, posters and slogans, photographs, poems and 'unity stories' on democracy and national unity, with a final ceremony in Bursa.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

The Ministry of National Education's long-running national robotics competition, where school teams build robots in 16 categories from line followers and mini sumo to drones, underwater robots and cyber security.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published