Primarily target is the children 2-12 ages. Secondarily their teachers in primary schools and parents are to be benefited from the project. But since the experiments in our collection so original and attractive secondary school teachers and all other interested people from all ages are to be benefitted

Target population lives in every corner of Turkey from big metropolitans to small mountain villages, from private schools to state schools. But those ones attending to crowded classrooms in big cities suburbs and those students in undeveloped parts of Turkey who can not reach to television, books and other alternative science learning tools are more negatively affected from the problem . Actually the press news by Gulseren Guver from NTV and giving a report on research findings of Prof. Dr. Ayla Gürdal from Marmara University Ataturk Education Facullty, observations of the problems  and describing the terrific situation on science education in Istanbul triggered me to create this project. http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/124601.asp#BODY

The remarkable point is that the research is done in Istanbul , the biggest city and economic capital of Turkey. I can give you a more concrete example from my life. I have 2 kids and they are 9 and 11 years old. They attended in primary state schools in Istanbul and Ankara’s very special and economically developed districts and the number of students in their classrooms were about 20-40 during 5 years which is a very good quality level. But my 2 children brought me 3-4 news regarding science experiments that attract their attention in 5 years period.

According to 2004 data there are 10 million 300 thousand students are attending 36 thousand primary schools and  375 thousand teachers are working in these schools.  Only %2 of this students are attending private schools where educational standards are relatively high But even in private schools experimental science education is in very bad situation. Let me give you a concrete example. I have worked in Enka Schools during 1999-2000  which is managed by a very selected professionals coming from allover the world and which is leading innovation and revolutions  in primary school education. I have been in the team practicing GEMS Great Explorations in math and Science project containing interesting scenario based hand-on science activities  which is originated in USA in 1985 and now spread to %80 of USA .  Enka schools after a learning period tried to share its experiences with other schools in Turkey so that it could create sufficient budget to turnover the licensing fees but this did not get sufficient interest from schools so that the GEMS program did not continue in Turkey although Turkey was the first country of GEMS international network.

I want to reach this 10 million  children by different channels. I want help them learn my interesting science experiments by hand-on applications in their homes, in cd-roms, in books, in a website, in periodicals, in newspapers,   in schools, in summer schools, in hotels, in competitions and fairs.

First by TV programs I hope to reach almost half of this population approxima in 3 years. But being successful and mediatic in TV programs is bound to several conditions. So I want to use other alternative tools to reach children especially  one to one hand on experiences .I hope to find 50,150 and 500 volunteers in the years successively. We can take it 200 as an average for 3 years. One volunteer can work 10 days each year  and each day a volunteer can help 100 students . This makes 600.000 students at the end of 3 years. Cd-roms, books , web site and other tools can help us reach another 400.000 students.