Personal Resume

Throughout CAS activities, I worked not only to perfect the areas which I was lack of, but also the areas that I like to spend most of my time. By this way, I thought I will both learn new things and develop my areas of interest.

My main interest throughout the CAS activities was designing and drawing. The department I have been planning to study and the job I wanted to be had a significant role on my main interest area. Thus, I shaped my plan of creativity mostly on arts and designing. Music had an important key role on my life and that’s why I decided to play the piano for a long time as a creativity experience.

Staying active by contributing to many sports was a lot of fun, and also engaging. Skiing, swimming, jogging and doing fitness plays a key role in my daily life.

I see being a leader as a challenging role but at the same time leaders direct and solve problems, so I tried to be a group leader at each of the CAS experiences. This taught me a lot, significantly how to cope with big controversies among people.

I also developed my personal skills after involving CAS activities. Undoubtably, my communication skills and teamwork skills have developed. With the help of producing many CAS experiences, I also expanded my ability to be able to create new ideas.       

CAS Forms - Progress Form

CAS Yearly Plan

CAS Summer Plan

CAS Forms - Proposal Form For Portfolio Preparation

CAS Forms - Proposal Form For Fitness

CAS Forms - Proposal Form For Skiing

CAS Forms - Proposal Form for Playing Piano

CAS Creativity and Service - 23rd of April, Children's Day

At 23^rd of April we went to “Aziz Nesin Çocuk Vakfı”, which is children’s organization. Students were doing charity works in order to make children happy. An honorable mathematician called Aziz Nesin has established this organization to create events for children and to spend money for the benefits of children. Every year our school organizes events at 23^rd of April, the international children day, and try to make children happy. As well as Eyuboglu schools, students from other schools were there to help children, which was a great collaboration.

For creativity, we taught children (3-7 years old) to draw and paint. The had a lot of fun it taught us a lot to be model teachers. For service we helped and entertain them for charity, and gave the art pieces that they have done to them.

I am much more talented than the other students at drawing and painting. We were given some group jobs e.g., drawing, sculpture making, painting walls, painting t-shirts and we worked in accordance with the groups. I showed and taught how to draw and paint to children with more knowledge than the others.

Dealing with children is of course challenging for us. I learned how to manage with children, how to do what they want and to show respect to them. Since we are high school students, it was hard to deal with lower age group. We must have treated everyone equally to apply ethics rules. Chaos wasn’t tolerated at there, because every child was there to have fun.

We executed this CAS event by planning it from earlier. This project was planned in common with CAS department of our school. We also collaborated with students from other schools not only to cooperate, but also to entertain children. We also organized sports activities with other schools.

CAS Project - Young Entrepreneurs School Club

At 24 September 2017, I entered the school club “Young Entrepreneurs”. It’s school club where we produce a product for a social benefit. Every year students attend the local competition and exhibit their final projects. My CAS project involves of creativity and service. This year, after a challenging process, we selected the concept: office and home, and designed 2 products. Our products “clips” and “BookEra” aims to fulfill the responses and needs of office employees.

For service, we designed multi products and donate the money that we gained through our sales to a local charity. For creativity, on behalf of my department, I designed and sketched the products.

I am talented and quite knowledgeable about drawing and designing. So, while we are dividing to departments at the end of the year, I was placed at the head of the design department. We were a model company where we also have a general director. I always helped my friends while we were discussing the new innovations and ideas to find solutions. I’m a creative person, therefore I’m talented to find new solutions to problems. This helps me while designing.

While we were developing the product, there were of course some challenges. Adapting to teamwork was hard, because some people weren’t aware of any design issue and just defending their selves, at the end we agreed upon on the same ground. Another skill that I developed was my communication skills. There were another department called “communication and guest relations department.” People who are selected to there were successful at both verbal and sign-communication. This school club taught me how to communicate and use effective language to sell our product.

On the other hand, there were of course benefits of working collaboratively. Since everyone wasn’t perfect at a single topic, everyone was asking things to one another and consulting to our head manager.

I highly showed commitment and perseverance to this CAS Project. I continued involving it at least 1 year and still actively in the alumni-team of organization, so it has been 1 year and 5 months. Every Wednesday, at the club lesson times of school, we were meeting and discussing on our agenda topic. Other than school time, at weekends, we were meeting and executing our meetings with sponsors and authorities. Still, I’ve been attending to Young Entrepreneurs Alumni Meetings.

CAS Creativity - Portfolio Preparation

At 6th of May, I started to prepare my portfolio for the industrial/product design course. I started to go to a course called Mahir Guven Design Academy. Mr. Guven is a famous artist in Turkey which helps students to prepare both national and international entry exams. I’ve been drawing for 7 years and I always loved art. My drawing journey started at primary school with the help of art courses in school. At 5^th grade, I prepared my end-of-the-year art exhibition in school. Until then, I always continued to draw by myself. As soon as I decide to go to a Design Undergraduate course in college, I realized that I need to prepare my portfolio. However, I wasn’t prepared enough to construct a well-prepared professional portfolio. Until then I always used pen and pencil to draw.

I had some challenges about drawing before I start the course. I was only using pen and pencil. I couldn’t draw a colorful sketch of any object in 3-D and I couldn’t draw any car sketches which is my only dream. This course taught me and developed me in terms of using markers, drawing new objects in 3-D, painting with oil paint and so forth. I really developed my vision and my skills with the help of tutors in this course.

I showed a high commitment and perseverance to this course. I started at May 2018, and finished at February 2019. In this process, I went to course every week except some exceptions. I made 30 pieces of work which can be put to portfolio. I involved regularly to this creativity experience and it taught me a lot.

In the course, we worked collaboratively with other students to do some projects. Also, with the assistant tutors of Mr. Guven, I worked collaboratively to create some projects. At the beginning, when I can’t draw that good, assistant tutors helped and showed me how to draw. They gave me lectures about the fundamentals of design and drawing process. Afterwards, with collaboration with them, we created some projects. I also collaborated with other students and created common projects, where I highly enjoyed it.

We know that art conveys knowledge and it can also harbor knowledge related with global issues. I not only sketched drawings about modern design, but also oil-paints and charcoal sketches relevant with global issues. I was well aware of current global issues and reflected them to my paintings. For instance, I draw basic hands and feet to practice my free-hand sketching, but I also tried to show problems related with body and health due to advancement in technology. Another painting of mine shows the global slum problem. I paint a grey city which consists of houses one after the other. These reflect current global problems.

CAS Creativity - Playing Piano

I’ve been playing piano for 2 years. I started to play the piano by the encouragement of my friend Arda. He was playing piano in advance and I also played piano in advance. I actually first learned to play the piano when I was 7 years old. But he impressed me and I decided to start to play the piano again after a long break.

I developed myself so much that I play some pieces from famous pianists like Chopin, Beethoven and Schubert. Before, I had some struggles while playing the piano. I also played a short time while I was at 8^th grade. To exemplify such struggles, I was experiencing a mis-coordination between my hands. Whe

n my right hand was playing a specific melody, my left hand can’t adapt and play a different melody. As we know, in intermediate and harder piano pieces, there isn’t any synchronization between both hands. I learned to coordinate both hands at the same time. Another new skill that I have developed is not also to start playing harder pieces, but also to start playing different types of pieces, like nocturnes, waltzes and impromptus. I learned that music isn’t just composed of playing the piano, but also, it’s essential to learn the theoretical knowledge and terms about music. I enlarged my capacity about the background knowledge of music, the rhythms and the types of music pieces. With the help of pre-learned theoretical knowledge, I realized that I can play even better, because it helps when you have a rhythm knowledge while performing it. Playing different types of classical music, like nocturne and waltzes, developed my hand coordination. Formerly, it was like a nightmare to play the piano and I wasn’t willing to play, but now, it’s a deep wish inside m

e to play every day and to discover very different pieces.

I collaborated with my friend Arda and he helped me to re-start to play the piano. Some pieces that I heard from him moved me and lead me to start again. I planned my process of playing the piano as a timeline and during the summer between IB1 and IB2, I did my best to develop myself. With Arda, we tried to play a piano piece together, he was going to play the left hand while I was going to play the right hand.

This is the very activity that I highly showed commitment and perseverance. I’ve been playing the piano for 2 years and I never quit to play it. When I start it, it was hard for me because I played it 3 years ago. But after a long break I start again and I’m still playing it. Day by day, I increased my working tempo and learned new pieces. When I couldn’t manage to play a part, I tried over and over again until I make it. At the end I am successful and I enjoy playing it.