Young people from Arnavutköy met at the Metaverse and Future Professions Seminar.
ISTANBUL - Arnavutköy Municipality Informatics Academy organized a seminar on "Future Professions in Metaverse and the Digital Age Transformation". As part of the seminar, young high school students from the district were informed about the innovations of the digital age.
The seminar program organized at Hadımköy İbrahim Özaydın Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School attracted great attention. High school students and teachers from the district participated in the program. The program aimed to raise young people's awareness about the future professions, the metaverse and the digital age, and it continued throughout the day. Arnavutköy Mayor Ahmet Haşim Baltacı also attended the program and addressed young people. At the end of the seminar, participating students were given various gifts.
"Especially after the pandemic, we have extraordinary differences in our lives"
Speaking in the program, Arnavutköy Mayor Ahmet Haşim Baltacı said, "The world is now much different from our era: especially after the pandemic, we have seen extraordinary differences. We have seen the development of technology in many different areas. One of them is the metaverse and I'm just learning this concept just like you. The purpose of these efforts is to learn and teach new opportunities and professions that have emerged in the digitalizing world. Now we are incorporating informatics-based municipalism into our services, and we are building a great informatics center for young people."
"Our Mayor was interested in our project"
High school student Hasan Seğer said, "I did a project as a chemistry student and our Mayor became interested in it. In this project, we showed the harms of food dyes and tried to reveal the possible positive change if they were replaced with organic ones."
Mustafa CANDAROĞLU, originally from Cide, Kastamonu, was born on December 5, 1984, in Arnavutköy, Istanbul.
He graduated from Boğazköy Primary School in 1996, Asfa Middle School in 1999, and Sultan Fatih Anatolian High School in 2002. Completing his undergraduate education at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the International Cyprus University, Candaroğlu graduated in Interior Architecture in 2008. He completed his military service as a Short-Term Soldier at the Kayseri Regional Gendarmerie Command. After military service, Candaroğlu completed his master's education in Educational Institutions Management at Ibn Haldun University, and volunteered in various NGOs.
He served as Deputy President of the Arnavutköy Kastamonulular Association, and was a member of the boards of Arnavutköy Sports Club and Arnavutköy Beşiktaşlılar Association.
Being involved in politics throughout his education and social life, Candaroğlu served on the UNIAK Board of Directors in 2004 and actively entered politics in the Arnavutköy Belde Youth Branch in 2008. In Arnavutköy, which became a district in 2009, he held positions in District Congresses as follows: • 2009 as an Alternate Board Member of the District Primary Committee, • 2011 as a Board Member of the District Primary Committee, • 2013 as a Board Member of the District Primary Committee responsible for R&D and Local Governments. • Elected as District President in the 2018 and 2020 Congresses, Candaroğlu continues to serve as the AK Party Arnavutköy District President.
Born, raised, and currently living in Arnavutköy, Candaroğlu always finds happiness in serving in the AK Party, which practices politics based on the principle of "We love the created for the sake of the creator." After working for a long time as an Interior Architect in a family company, he continues to serve as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arnavutköy Bilgi Kalem College, which he founded in 2019.
Mustafa CANDAROĞLU, married and father of 3 children, speaks English proficiently.
Content is updating