GLOBE

Eyüboğlu High School was one of the first three Turkish schools that were selected to become Globe partners within the scope of a bilateral cooperation agreement that was signed between the US government and the government of Turkey with the purpose of creating awareness on environment and developing global learning and observations.

The GLOBE program was officially launched on the Earth Day on April 22, 1996 when Albert Gore invited all the US schools to participate in the program. More than 200 schools heeded the invitation and afterwards, all the countries were invited to join. At the moment, the program is conducted with the participation of 4000 schools from 44 countries. The scientists who strive to raise environmental awareness avail themselves of the environmental measurements that are taken by the primary and secondary school students. In this program, the students taking scientifically valid measurements in various fields report their data to other GLOBE schools and to GLOBE headquarters through the Internet. Such data are then compared and evaluated.

Eyüboğlu was represented at the first GLOBE conference, at Miami University in November 1995 and was one of the first three schools (the other two being Kültür High School from Istanbul and Büyük Kolej from Ankara) to join the project in Turkey. In June 1998 the school was represented by two students and a teacher who presented a paper at the European Globe Conference in Helsinki-Finland. The school was also represented by our Globe teacher at the first Turkish GLOBE Congress, held in Sinop in 2000.