XR Academy Hackathon Demo Day — Entrepreneurship Award

At the Demo Day of the second XR Academy Program hackathon—a parallel event to Games for Change Türkiye with Koç University KARMA Lab—we celebrated a major success! After five intensive weeks of work and development, we are proud to win the Entrepreneurship Award with our team’s education-focused XR game prototype! 🏆 First, we thank the partners who made this program possible: Koç University KARMA XR Lab, Meta, Habitat Association, the Ministry of National Education YEGİTEK (ETKİM), and ArkHaus Community. We also extend special thanks to our mentors, instructors, and jury members. The XR Academy program, run with Koç KARMA Lab, Meta, Habitat, MoNE YEGİTEK (ETKİM MEB), and ArkHaus alongside Games for Change Türkiye, builds capacity for teachers, young creators, and entrepreneurs to produce with XR. This year we completed the second hackathon’s Demo Day at Dotshub. After five weeks, teams presented education-focused XR game prototypes to the jury. 🏆 First: CALGame 🥈 Second: Star Chasers 🥉 Third: Kalfa XR ✨ Most promising: Şiv XR 🏅 Jury special: Gündüz Düşü 🚀 Entrepreneurship Award: ESF EduTech. We congratulate all teams and thank mentors, instructors, and jurors. Together we grow and shape the future.