In Turkey, technological competitions organized as part of the Aviation, Cosmos and Technology Festival.
According to Teknofest, technological competitions as part of the world’s largest aviation festival were held for the first time in 2018, they submitted applications 4 thousand 333 teams in 14 different nominations.
Last year, a record number of applications- 337 thousand teams and over 1 million contestants were received for participation in Teknofest.
This year, 790 thousand teams and 1 million 650 thousand participants were submitted for participation in the festival.
The schedule of technological competitions in the framework of Teknofest 2024 is as follows: August 8-9- a competition for processing a natural language in Turkish (Kodzhaeli), August 12-17- an international competition of electric vehicles among participants in the Efficency Challenge lyceums (Kodzhaeli), 13- August 17 – HYPERLOOP development competition (Kodzhaeli), August 20-23 – Conducting passenger autonomous vehicles Robotaxi (Codzhaeli), August 24-25 – Quantum Hackathon Competition (New Competition Kojaeli), August 24-25 – Teknofest Drones Championship ( 1st stage – rocker), August 26-30 – Agricultural Competition UGV (Izmir), September 4 – Travelx Ideathon (Istanbul).
Further, on September 9-16, a competition for the development of robotics (Aksaray) will be held, September 11-15 is a contest on vertical landing missiles (Ankara), 12-18-a competition on combat UAVs (Adan), September 17-20-competitions-competition For unmanned submarine systems (MERSIN), September 18-20-a contest of satellite models (Aksaray), September 19-22-a contest of unmanned marine vehicles (new contest-Mersin), September 19-23-International Wedempive Firing Studies for Elders Classes (Kazakhmanmarash), September 21-22 – Teknofest Drones Championship (2nd stage – MERSIN) and finally, October 16-19 – Robotics competition (Erzurum).
The final of the competition will be held at the International Exhibition and Congress Center Antalya Anfaş from September 5 to 8. Awards to the winners will be awarded on the main stage of Teknofest in Adan.
The International Exhibition and Congress Center Anfaş will host such technological competitions as the Smart Transport contest, the Biotechnology competition, the blockchain contest (new competition), the competition of environmental and energy technologies, the chip design competition, the educational technology competition, the competition of educational technologies, Technology competition for people with disabilities, a competition of financial technologies (new competition), Hack Masters, a competition of air defense technologies (new competition), a helicopter competition, a technology competition for the benefit of mankind, a competition of jet engines, a wireless competition (new competition) , A competition of technological applications in psychology, an artificial intelligence competition in healthcare, digital technology competition, agricultural technology competition, Teknofest Robolig contest (new competition), tourist technology contest, modeling flying cars, artificial intelligence competition, coating competition Smart Wi-Fi (New Competition), Swarm UAV, T3 AI Hackathon (New Competition) “.