Emircan Akkoyun and Can Küçükfenercioğlu, 9th graders, participated in the “Design Your Mathematical Modeling Competition,” organized by İTÜ İzmir Development Foundation. Their project, now ranked in the first fifteen, is among 72 projects prepared by students from different cities of Turkey. The name of their project is the “Mathematical Modeling of Mongol and Ottomon Empires.” We congratulate our students and wish them good luck in the final.