Yonca Kurt

Experience

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  Ozel Evrim Lisesi

  Sept 2003 - Aug 2007

  Computer Science Teacher
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  Darüşşafaka Cemiyeti

  Sept 2007 - Sept 2017

  Computer Science Teacher
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  İELEV Okulları

  Sept 2017 - Oct 2021

  Educational Technology Manager
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  Tech Study UK

  Aug 2021 - now

  She graduated from the 19 Mayıs Üniversity in Computer Education and Instructional Technologies in 2003. After the graduation, she worked as a computer science teacher. She is in this field since 2003. She worked in several top schools as the educational technology manager.She has been leading a learning community that makes a difference in the country with the trainings she has given at Yonca Özgün Academy which she founded in Turkey four years ago.She attended programming training organized by Stanford University in 2014 and 2015. In 2017, together with her students, she was selected for the Canada Wide Science Fair held in Canada, representing Turkey, and returned to the country by winning two gold medals with two projects. In 2019, she represented Turkey with a robotics project prepared by students with her at the International RoboRAVE Competition held in Poland and won a gold medal for the third time with her students.In 2017 and in 2020, she was selected among the most successful female educators of the year in the Women’s Leaders of Technology Competition organized by Microsoft.She provides private coding training to university students and high school students who are preparing for universities abroad. She has private tutors from Boston University,Northeastern University in the USA, UCL, and Imperial College London in the UK, and besides that high school students studying in London and different countries in Europe.She has four books in this field. Which are “Maker Educator with Projects”, “Maker Student Education with Projects” published about coding and Robotics. She wrote, two more books to help teachers struggling about distance teaching, “Distance Education Must” and “Google Passwords in Education”.She continues her works abroad within the technology training and consultancy company “Tech Study UK”, which she founded in London, England. Show less

  • Founder

    Aug 2021 - now

  • Yonca Kurt

    Aug 2021 - now