Turkey 11: Our First Week of the Project

The Turkey 11 Corporate Service Corps projects are focused on the Innovation Agenda in Turkey.  The team is divided into four sub-teams and I am part of sub-team 1.  The Turkey 11 team kicked off our projects on Monday, October 20th.  Each of the teams presented their high level projects to the four host organizations as well as a brief introduction of themselves.

When it was my turn, I said:

Merhaba, Guynayden (Hello, Good Morning)
Benin Admin Frank Henderson (My name is Frank Henderson)
Ben Amerika'dan Gallorym (I am from the United States)

Turkey 11 CSC Team

Introducing myself in Turkish!!!

Sub-team 1:  The focus for my sub-team is to design a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) campaign in order to create strong awareness of STEM education and workforce training throughout Turkey.  We have an international team!!  Prajyot and Deirdre are from India and Karen is from Canada.

Karen, Prajyot, and Deirdre

Prajyot, Frank, Deirdre, and Karen

We were very lucky that our host organization was holding a conference on our CSC topic while we were in Istanbul.  We were able to glean a tremendous amount of information during the STEM conference.

Prajyot

Frank

Karen

Deirdre

The conference was delivered in Turkish so we wore headsets to hear the translation to English.  This was my "UN" moment!! ;)










As a first step to understand the current environment of STEM awareness, education and workforce skills in Turkey, our team conducted multiple interviews across business, academic, government, and NGO constituents.

 

 

I look forward to sharing more information as the project progresses.  I feel very honored to have the opportunity to participate in a project that will have far reaching benefits to Turkey and generations to come.

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