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One of the 2022-2023 Academic Year General Orientation Programs, "Digital Education Orientation Program,” in which our newly registered students were introduced to all the digital media and resources they will benefit from during their academic lives at our university and were given training on how to use them, was held by Student Life, Career, and Alumni Advisory Unit (Kültür Point.) 259 new students participated in the first session of the program, which was organized in two sessions (10.30-12.00 and 14.00-15.30) via Adobe Connect platform on Monday, September 19, and 475 participated in

As a part of the “Peer Mentoring” project carried out by Kültür Point, the students who will serve as volunteer mentors in the 2022-2023 Academic Year were trained by Kültür Point Deputy Head of Unit, Doğa Kurtyiğit. The particulars of the mentoring processes were dwelled upon in the training held over Microsoft Teams on Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 17.00. The training, attended by 80 volunteer peer mentors, was concluded after the questions were answered.

Organized by the Turkish Technology Team Foundation and T.R. Ministry of Industry and Technology, TEKNOFEST was held for the fifth time this year as a grand organization with 130 companies participating, including 101 stakeholders and sponsors. The "Technology Competitions" designed to support the projects of thousands of young people working in these fields with the aim of increasing the interest of young people in the production and development of national technology, were organized this year in 40 main competitions and 99 different categories.

The KUASAR Team, which is a member of the IEEE Club and made up of the students of our university participating in the world's largest Aviation, Space and Technology Festival’s competition in the category of "Barrier-Free Living Technologies" in the Black Sea of ​​TEKNOFEST, which will be held in Samsun between August 30 – September 4, 2022, will participate in the K-ROD Smart Walking Stick Project. They exhibited their work in the final stage of the competition, which was held in Trabzon between 5 -7 August 2022 and passed the jury’s assessment successfully.

To the competitions partaking in “TEKNOFEST Aerospace and Technology Festival,” which is held under the leadership of Turkish Technology Team Foundation and TR Ministry of Industry and Technology, and with the support of Türkiye’s leading technology companies, public institutions, media organizations and universities, more than 149 thousand teams and more than 500 thousand competitors applied this year.

IEEE IKU Club KUASAR Team is a finalist in the TEKNOFEST'22 under the category of "Technology for the Benefit of Humanity" with their "K-Rod Smart Walking Stick" project, which aims to minimize the hardships experienced by visually impaired individuals in daily life and to enable these individuals to return to their social lives.

Ezgi Topçu, The President of IEEE IKU RAS and 3rd year student of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, won the "IEEE TRS RAS Outstanding Member Award'22" at the "IEEE TRS RAS AWARDS 22" held for the first time this year. We congratulate our student on this award received as a result of her outstanding work within the club of which she has been a member for the last 3 years.

The "Traditional Baked Pasta Day", which was made a tradition by the Kültür College Alumni Association but could not be held for the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was held on Sunday, July 3rd. Our graduates, teachers and administrators who missed each other showed great interest in the event.

One of the IEEE IKU Club TEKNOFEST teams, IKU Red Wings won the right to compete in the final for the second time. The team, which has represented our university as a finalist at TEKNOFEST 2021, will fiercely compete for the leading degrees this year.

Istanbul Kültür University 2022 Graduation Ball was hosted by Portaxe Baltalimanı on Friday, July 1st. The ball, which was held with the participation of our Board of Trustees & President of IKUMED Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver and IKUMED Board Members, continued with the DJ performance of Emrah Karaduman. IKU Graduation Ball ended with the after party.