Çağan TURGUT

He placed 1st in the RoboHokey category at the 3rd Bolu Technology Festival, held at the BAİBÜ Bolu Vocational School Sports Hall. The festival drew 166 teams and about 300 students from many provinces, including Ankara, Balıkesir, Eskişehir, İstanbul, and Bolu. The robot hardware (ESP32, TB6612FNG motor driver) and control software were built on the open-source RoboCar project, which can be driven over Bluetooth with a PS5 DualSense controller. Participation is documented by an official certificate of participation signed by Cemal Turan, Bolu Provincial Director of National Education; the press item below also documents the festival in general.

At the Türkiye Final Exhibition and Award Ceremony (27–30 April 2026) of the 2204-A 57th High School Students Research Projects Competition, organized by the TÜBİTAK Scientist Support Programs Directorate (BİDEB), the project "Edebi Çengel: Teaching Literature with Digital Crosswords" won 2nd place in Türkiye in Turkish Language and Literature. Çağan TURGUT's project partner is Yağmur Okumuş, and their advisor is Tarık Aksoy. After the Ankara regional win, they represented the project at the national final and placed second.

Award ceremony livestream: In the video below, the project is announced at 2:15:20, and the award is received on stage at 2:16:05.

At the 57th High School Students Research Projects Ankara Regional Competition, held 9–12 February 2026 by the TÜBİTAK Scientist Support Programs Directorate, "Edebi Çengel" won the First Prize in Turkish Language and Literature. Edebi Çengel lets students preparing for university learn literature by solving digital crosswords instead of memorizing. It has difficulty levels and generates original puzzles with artificial intelligence. This result qualified the project for the Türkiye final. The certificate is signed by TÜBİTAK President Prof. Dr. Orhan Aydın.

He built the tablet software used in the "Kelimesayar" competition, which the Bolu Provincial Directorate of National Education holds every year. Çağan TURGUT did not enter as a competitor; he prepared the app for the students who took part, as a technical contribution. The final, held on 9 December 2025 in the Bolu BİLSEM Conference Hall, included 34 primary schools, 31 of them from central Bolu together with Mengen, Kıbrıscık, and Göynük. You can try the app at cayadev.com/project/kelime-sayar.

He placed 2nd in the Line-Following Robot category at the 2nd Bolu Technology Festival, hosted by İzzet Baysal Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in Bolu. Forty-three teams from Bolu and Ankara competed. This result also laid the groundwork for the following year's 1st place in RoboHokey.

On 5–8 September 2024, during TEKNOFEST Mediterranean, he entered the Technology for Humanity Competition with the "CaYa Window Blocker" project, built with teammates Yağız Turgut, Ahmet Faruk Yemez, and Barbaros Ali Yılmaz, and placed 10th in the category. The certificate of participation is signed by Selçuk Bayraktar, Chairman of the TEKNOFEST Board.