Our Workshops

At Özkaya KHS, our students discover their talents, develop their skills, and explore their passions in various workshops alongside their academic education. With our workshops spanning a wide range from robotics to art, music to sports, we bring out each student's unique potential.

Our Education Philosophy: The Spirit of Village Institutes

Not Memorizing; A Generation That Produces and Shares

We have built our education model on the spirit of Village Institutes, one of the Republic's most valuable legacies. For us, workshops are not hobby areas; they are practical classrooms where mathematics, science, and art come to life. We prepare our students for life with four fundamental principles:

Talent Discovery

Happy Individual

Every child is special. A child who discovers their own talent and passion at an early age in our workshops avoids wrong career choices and becomes a happy, productive individual for life.

Learning by Doing

Lasting Knowledge

Lessons are not memorized, they are lived. Memorized knowledge is forgotten, but experience learned through touch and production lasts a lifetime.

Production and Entrepreneurship

From Idea to Market

Our students don't just produce; they establish their company, market their product, and sell it. By experiencing commerce and business processes at school desks, they start life one step ahead.

Social Responsibility

Conscientious Generations

Sharing is as important as earning. Our students donate the income they earn through their handcrafts to public schools; they make helping and social benefit a way of life.

Beekeeping Workshop
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Beekeeping Workshop

Our beekeeping workshop is a unique journey of discovery that introduces our students to nature's most hardworking architects. They learn the fascinating task distribution of the queen bee, worker bees, and drones in the hive, the perfect mathematics of honeycombs, and how a flower's essence transforms into honey, all based on biological foundations.

  • Protective equipment and hive maintenance
  • Honey, beeswax, and propolis production
  • Experiencing harmony with nature
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Woodworking & Maker Workshop

Our Woodworking & Maker Workshop is a special production laboratory where our students push the boundaries of their imagination and abstract ideas transform into concrete products. In our workshop equipped with safe lathes and milling machines meeting European standards, tailored to age groups; our students work with Design Thinking methodology, learning not just to consume, but to produce and solve problems.

  • Safe lathes and milling machines
  • Design Thinking methodology
  • Fine motor and engineering skills
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Woodworking & Maker Workshop
Equestrian Workshop
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Equestrian Workshop

Our Equestrian Workshop is an area where our students learn equestrian sports with professional instructors, build a safe bond with horses, and gain a sense of discipline, balance, and responsibility. The safe bond established with horses instills a sense of responsibility in students while developing patience and discipline skills through regular care routines.

  • Equestrian training with professional instructors
  • Horse care and responsibility awareness
  • Development of discipline, balance, and self-confidence
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Ecological Agriculture & Livestock

Our Agriculture Workshop is a living space where students step out of concrete structures and reconnect with the soil. Our Livestock Workshop is a practical life school that teaches our students that basic foods like milk, eggs, and meat don't exist on supermarket shelves, but come through great effort. In both workshops, production culture, respect for nature, and sustainable production principles are learned.

  • Farm-to-table agriculture experience
  • Animal care and life cycle
  • Production awareness and social responsibility
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Ecological Agriculture & Livestock
Forest Workshop (Preschool)
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Forest Workshop (Preschool)

Our Forest Workshop is a special discovery program that removes classroom walls and uses the forest as an "outdoor laboratory." Our education works with special rituals: We ask permission from the forest before entering, find our symbolic key, and thank it when leaving. By visiting the same forest area every week, children learn about a green leaf turning yellow, mixing with the soil, and sprouting again in spring, directly from within the seasonal cycle.

  • Nature observation and seasonal cycles
  • Ritual and symbolic learning
  • Outdoor laboratory experience
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Aviation Workshop

Our Aviation Workshop offers students a real experience that goes beyond theory. Our students gain operational flight experience at Ephesus Airport by experiencing the helicopter flight preparation process firsthand. The program begins in the hangar with technicians; professional pre-flight steps such as helicopter interior/exterior checks, fuel-oil tests, and weather analysis are performed practically.

  • Real helicopter and Ephesus Airport experience
  • Tower communication and aviation alphabet
  • Operational awareness and safety consciousness
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Aviation Workshop
Kids Nook Storytelling
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Kids Nook Storytelling

Kids Nook / Sensory Storytime; is an original program inspired by schools like Reggio Emilia and Montessori, where stories are experienced not just through hearing, but through touching, smelling, and moving. Against the attention deficit brought by the digital age, we use "Silent Books" (Wordless Books) in our workshop. Our education process is not random, but progresses in a disciplined 1-month cycle.

  • 4-stage learning cycle (Narration, Drama, Sensory Play, Project)
  • Sensory integration and focus
  • Visual literacy and communication skills
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Media & Digital Content

Our Media & Digital Content Workshop is a comprehensive production center that transforms all our students from preschool to high school from individuals who consume in front of screens to individuals who produce behind cameras. Our workshop has technical infrastructure that rivals a television channel. Our students present news in virtual studios with Greenbox technology, learn aerial imaging techniques with DJI Drone, and sit at the editing table with industry-standard software like Adobe Premiere / After Effects.

  • 4K Professional Camera and Greenbox technology
  • Editing with Adobe Premiere / After Effects
  • Media literacy and broadcasting ethics
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Media & Digital Content
Chemistry of Cooking
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Chemistry of Cooking

Our Chemistry of Cooking Workshop is a multifaceted learning space where students don't just cook, but bring science and mathematics into practical life by observing the transformation of ingredients. While preparing fun recipes like cookies, pancakes, and chocolate with our younger age groups; at advanced levels, we transform stale breads with the "Zero Waste Kitchen" principle and produce winter sauces and pickles with tomatoes and peppers we collect from our garden.

  • Science and mathematics in the kitchen (proportions, chemical reactions)
  • Sustainability and zero waste kitchen principle
  • Life skills and self-confidence development
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Robotics & Software Workshop

Our Robotics & Coding Workshop enables our students to see technology not just as a tool for entertainment, but as a "superpower" that solves real-world problems. In our lessons, Artificial Intelligence (AI) supported technologies, software development, and robotic systems are taught together. Our students learn practically how to combine hardware components, adjust sensors, and create a working system while designing mini AI robots with ESP32 boards.

  • AI-supported robotic systems
  • Hands-on learning with ESP32 boards
  • Ability to produce technological solutions
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Robotics & Software Workshop
Ceramics Workshop
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Ceramics Workshop

Our Ceramics Workshop is a professional art space established in 2020, with its fully equipped structure from kiln to potter's wheel, rivaling a university studio. Here, clay is not just a play tool, but a cultural heritage that meets archaeology. Our students experience patience, experimentation, and the excitement of waiting for a piece to emerge from the kiln during the shaping, drying, and firing stages.

  • University-standard equipped studio
  • Patience and process management
  • Cultural heritage and archaeology awareness
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Textile Workshop

Our Textile Workshop is a production and design area that provides our students with "life skills" they will use throughout their lives, beyond fashion. Our education begins with basic self-care skills such as tying shoes, sewing buttons/snaps, and mending tears. We apply the "Peer Education" model; students who know teach those who don't, and the class progresses together. Our students who master the basics meet sewing machines and renew their old clothes through upcycling projects.

  • Basic life skills (sewing, repair)
  • Peer education and solidarity
  • Upcycling and sustainable design
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Textile Workshop

Discover Your Child's Potential

Contact us to learn more about our workshops and schedule a visit.