Necati
Türker

After the 2023 earthquakes I coordinated a volunteer initiative with students from several Istanbul high schools, aimed at rebuilding something quiet but necessary in Hatay: access to books. Over roughly three months, we built two school libraries from scratch at Ayşe Fitnat Ortaokulu (Antakya) and Altınözü Atatürk Ortaokulu, shelving about 2,000 books, completed 27 February 2026. Twenty volunteers took part.

The work went beyond libraries: LGS exam coaching at six schools and short robotics introduction sessions, delivered alongside IELEV Key Club, Robolynx, and Robistim. A second phase has since added a third library in Samandağ and around 1,000 more books.

Alongside it I presented LGS guidance seminars in Istanbul and Hatay, helping middle school students prepare for the entrance exam and pointing them toward STEM while good guidance can still change which doors stay open.

I founded a student-led STEM initiative and led a team of 20 that took hands-on engineering and programming workshops to disadvantaged rural schools. I built and taught the courses myself: Arduino and electronics, block-based programming with Scratch and Code.org, and 3D modelling, with origami as a cheap, tactile way into geometry.

The constraint was deliberate. Good STEM teaching using materials and methods that still work when there is no budget for equipment.

Fundraising for LÖSEV, the foundation for children with leukemia, raised through three separate fairs and a charity basketball tournament I organised, which turned ordinary school events into a channel for a real cause.

Run under the IELEV Key Club chapter I founded and led as President, the second Key Club chapter in Türkiye.

For middle school students I founded a STEM Science Fair, ran it for two years, and organised three robotics competitions alongside it. The fair was built around interactive stations instead of a passive exhibition: Arduino electronics, FIRST Robotics demos, VR, cryptology, engineering design challenges, and live science demonstrations.

The competitions gave the same students a low-pressure way into the competitive robotics that shaped my own path. I designed the stations and challenges, recruited and coordinated the volunteers, and ran the logistics for hundreds of kids each time.

An international documentary project connecting participants from 10 different countries, using robotics as a shared language to raise awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Working across a global group taught me how much engineering depends on being able to tell people why it matters.

Self-taught since I was nine. I've designed the identity for every team I've built, sold branding and cover art to companies and social pages through my own studio, Flear Design, and produced my own apparel line, Mandown, which was packed and sold through Rock Hard.