You are cordially invited to
THE 2023 J.U.C. AWARDS CEREMONY (Virtual)
In Loving Memory of J.U.C.

On Saturday, JUNE 17, 2023
TIME Zones: 11:00 a.m. EST (USA/Canada) | 16:00 CM | 17:00 Chad | 18:00 TR  
20:30 IN & SL | 20:45 Nepal
[Tentative] P R O G R A M M E | New: BOOKLET#3
(Booklet with the Bios of the Students & the Speakers)

Tentative Programme (pdf) | Media Release (pdf) | Invitation (pdf) | Invitation (png) | List of the Submissions
New: Booklet#2003/3 With the Bios of the Students and the Speakers

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[LMGlobal.Org] On behalf of The Light Millennium, a Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization, we are very excited to present 16 (sixteen) Awards mainly in five categories, “Media, Research, Writing/General, Writing/Türkiye100, Research, and Water Action”, along with a Special Award on the “100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye” through Atatürk Society of America as a total of 17 high school students will be awarded based in (alphabetic order) Chad, Cameroon, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Türkiye at the 2023 J.U.C. Virtual Awards Ceremony on June 17, 2023.
It is a bi-annual international program by LMGlobal.Org towards encouraging high school students with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and intellectual productivity in their interest areas, along with international collaborations.
The first J.U.C. Awards was organized and presented virtually on June 4, 2021.

[Tentative] P R O G R A M M E ~ On Saturday, JUNE 17, 2023

• Video: OPENING MUSIC (Piano performance) by Mr. ARES ECOS, Etude Op. 25 No.2 in F minor by Frédéric Chopin (2 min.)

• WELCOME REMARKS by: (Mother of J.U.C.) Ms. BİRCAN ÜNVER, M.A. Founder-President, TV Producer & Head Rep. of The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization to the United Nations Department of Global Communications. 

• OPENING REMARKS: Ambassador Mr. RODRIGO A. CARAZO, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations (2018 – 2022); Chair, Evaluation Committee, 2023 J.U.C. Awards; Member, UN Human Rights Council (2023); President, 2022 UNICEF Executive Committee.

• OPENING REMARKS: Mr. RAMU DAMODARAN, The First Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact initiative (2010-2021).

A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO J.U.C.: READINGS Of SHORT PIECES WRITTEN BY J.U.C.

• Mr. ALAZ SUBAŞILAR, “Mr. Virus”(2001, poem)

• Mr. ALP CAN, “The 8th Continent Discovered” (2002);

• Ms. SUDE ÇAPOĞLU, 2001, First Place Winner, in the Writing Category; “Welcome to Ancient Egypt”(2004).
Presenter: BİRCAN ÜNVER 

AND, THE WINNERS ARE…

• INTRODUCER & PRESENTERS OF THE AWARDS in:

• EVALUATION PROCESS & GENERAL INFO ON THE AWARDS:
Prof. SİBEL EROL, Clinical Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University.

Overall Excellence and the First Place Winners in each category, will have one-minute speaking time.

• MEDIA

Second Place: Ms. R.A. RUKHSHANA M2: “My Favorite SDG#7”
Velammal Vidyalaya, CBSE, Chennai, India

First Place: Ms. KAVISHA AMANDI JAYARATHNE
M1: “See the Human” (Gender Equality)
Whyteleafe Performing Arts Academy, Sri Lanka
• Viewing the first place video, “See the Human”

Presenter: Prof. SİBEL EROL

• RESEARCH

Third Place: Mr. S. PERINBA ATHIBAN
R#4: “Artificial Intelligence: The Shining Star of Modern Technology”,
XII Standard in Velammal Vidyalaya, Ayanambakkam, Chennai, India

Second Place: Ms. JYOTI KUMARIR
#2: “Covid-19: Disastrous Invention of the 21st Century”
ST. Paul’s Modern School, Bokaro Thermal, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India

First Place: Ms. SİMAY YÜKSEL
R#5: “Stem Cells: A Promising Hope for the Future”,
TED College, Ankara, Türkiye

• Presenter: HANDE SUBAŞILAR, Ph.D, Art Historian, Caldwell University, N.J., USA. 

• WATER ACTION

Third Place: Mr. NJIKENG TEBONG-JUNIOR
WAA#2: “Stop Deforestation in Connection with Groundwater”,
St. Theresa collages Molyko Buea, Cameroon

Second Place: Ms. FATIME ABAKAR OUSMANE
WAA1: “Water For All”
Féminin High School level 1ere Scientific from Ndjamena, Chad

First Place: Ms. EMİNE KARAMAN
WAA3 (W3/G): “Water as a Source of Life” (Shorty Story)
Darüşşafaka High School, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Video – Presenter: Prof. OLCAY ÜNVER, Arizona State University (U.S.A), Vice-Chair UN-Water (2018-2020) & Senior Water Advisor, UN-FAO (Rome, Italy). 

• WRITING/GENERAL

Third Place: Ms. ZEYNEP ÖZDEMİR
W15/G: “A Boarding School in Space” (Short story)
Darüşşafaka High School, İstanbul, Türkiye

Second Place: Ms. RANEESHA JAYARATNE
WG#9 – Theme: “If you became the President of the World…”
Whyteleafe Performing Arts Academy, Sri Lanka

First Place: Mr. EREN KORUYAN
WG#4: Theme: Ancient Civilizations: “Dedicated To All Those Striving For Freedom” (Short Story)
Darüşşafaka High School, İstanbul, Türkiye

• Introduction by Prof. SİBEL EROL | Announcement of the winners by: SUDE ÇAPOĞLU

• WRITING/GENERAL SPECIAL AWARD FOR NEPAL

Mr. MANDIP RAM KUMARW5/G: “Equality”
Shree Nepal Rastriya National School, Mahuwan, Parsa, Nepal
Presenter: BİRCAN ÜNVER

• HONORARY SPEAKER
Dr. SERPİL TUNÇER, Ph.D., Board Member and Head of History and Culture Commission at Darüşşafaka Foundation

Dedication Theme: WRITING/TÜRKİYE100 

• Video: PIANO PERFORMANCE by KORKMAZ CAN SAĞLAM, 10 Etudes on Aksak Rhythms – No.1 Vivo by A. Adnan Saygun (1907-1991); 2021 J.U.C. Awards Second Place Winner in Media Category.

• Video: HONORARY SPEAKER ~ A Special Message on the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkiye by
Ambassador Mr. ERTUĞRUL APAKAN, Permanent Representative of Türkiye to the United Nations (2009-2012); Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (2014 – 2019)

Writing/Türkiye100: Brief Description and Announcement of the Awards by 
Ambassador RODRIGO A. CARAZO, Chair, Evaluation Committee

Third Place: Ms. HAMİDE BEGÜM YILDIZ
WTR#5: “A Look at the Treatment of Turkish Women Throughout the Years”
Darüşşafaka High School, İstanbul, Türkiye

Second Place: Mr. BATURALP ASLAN
WTR#2: “Naiveté of Vision”
TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School, Ankara, Türkiye

First Place: Ms. DURU BÜYÜKBAŞARAN
W1/TR100: “Peace at Home, Peace in the World”
Ankara University Developmental Foundation Private Anatolian High School (ANKÜ), Ankara, Türkiye

• SPECIAL AWARD by THE ATATÜRK SOCIETY OF AMERICA – presented by Atatürk Society of America

On the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye
Special Award: Ms. ELİF YILMAZ
W#3/TR100: “The 100th Anniversary of Republic of Turkey”
Darüşşafaka High School, İstanbul, Türkiye

• THE AWARD FOR OVERALL EXCELLENCE

Introduction and announcement of the award by the Chair, Ambassador CARAZO

Overall Excellence Award: Mr. MUHAMMET ALİ TURAN
Writing#7/Türkiye100: “Same Mindset in Different Centuries”,
Şehit Velit Bekdaş Anatolian High School, Ankara, Türkiye

• CONCLUDING REMARKS by Emeritus Professor GARY M. GROSSMAN
School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, U.S.A.
 

• CLOSING REFLECTIONS BY THE CHAIR 

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, THANK YOU NOTES & LOGISTICS by BİRCAN ÜNVER

• CLOSING ALL TOGETHER: Screenshots with ALL Guests

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Tentative Programme (pdf) | Media Release (pdf) | Invitation (pdf) Invitation (png) | List of the Submissions | Booklet#2003/3 With the Bios of the Students and the Speakers

Please REGISTER in advance for the Virtual Award Ceremony:
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Members of the EVALUATION COMMITTEE:
• Chair of the Committee:  Ambassador Rodrigo A. Carazo of Costa Rica to the United Nations (2018-2022)
Members:
• Prof. Olcay Ünver, Professor of Practice, Polytechnic Sch ERM Prgm., Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scientists
 and Scholars Affiliate, Melikian Center at Arizona State University;
• Prof. Sibel Erol, Clinical Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic StudiesNew York University;
• Prof. Edward Foster, Professor of History and Associate Dean for Administration in the College of Arts and Letters at the 
Stevens Institute of Technology (Retired);
• Prof. Gunay Smith, Professor of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Southside Virginia Community College (Retired);
• Prof. Gary M. Grossman, Emeritus of Professor, Arizona State University);
• Hande Subasilar, PhD., Adj. Assistant Professor, Caldwell University;
• Mildred VanBergen, PhD., Director of Academic Support Services for the Long Island location of Empire State University;
• Bircan Ünver, M.A., Author and Project Director, LMGlobal.Org.
– Contributors to the Committee: Ms. Demet Demirkaya, Board Member, LMGlobal.Org (Outreach); Mr. Mustafa Alp Can (Certificates)
– International Student Coordinators:
Ms. Sude Çapoğlu, Türkiye; Student Coordinator, 2021 First Place Recipient in Writing category;
Mr. Deepak Kumar, India Coordinator, LMGlobal.Org’s Representative in India;
Mr. Manoj Ram, India Coordinator with Deepak Kumar;
Mr. Lyonga Jewis, Cameroon, LMGlobal.Org’s Representative in Cameroon & Outreach Coordinator

• Participating Schools: Whyteleafe Performing Arts Academy (Kohuwala, Sri Lanka); Darüşşafaka Society “Equal Opportunity in Education since 1863” Istanbul, Türkiye; St. Paul’s Modern School, Bokara Thermal, India.

• Contributing Organizations: Smile4Millions (India), The Institution of Green Engineers | IGEN (India), Forlamy Dreams Association | FDA (Chad)

• Organized and Presented by
The Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization | LMGlobal.Org (2001, New York) – www.lmglobal.org | www.lightmillennium.org

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