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In recent studies, the importance of the learning environments in which students participate actively is highlighted. Because students are more active in the environment in which they participate, they learn more meaningfully. In this context, the importance of the scientific exhibitions in which students actively participate has also increased. This situation requires the study and follow-up of the scientific exhibitions in order to study the effects of students on their achievements, attitudes, perceptions towards the courses of science. Therefore, the teachers who have various categories in their structure, addressing all large and small individuals and based on cooperation with TÜBİTAK and MEB are intended to study the views of the students who are responsible for these exhibitions on the scientific exhibitions and the teachers who work as organizers and participants in the TÜBİTAK 4006 Science Exhibitions Support Program. This study was conducted with the aim of studying the opinions of teachers and students about the scientific exhibitions as a case study of the quality research patterns. In the study, a form of conversation was used for the purpose of collecting data. The study was conducted with 10 educational institutions located in the Polatlı District Centre in the 2016-2017 educational year and conducted the TÜBİTAK 4006 Science Exhibition. The study included 35 women, 25 men, 60 teachers, and 167 girls, 185 men, 352 students. The analysis of the data has brought these findings and results. The main reasons for teachers to participate in scientific exhibitions are "sharing their own experiences with others" and "training conscious students". However, teachers said it would be useful for their biographies for the scientific exhibitions. Participants said they took advantage of the "ex-work" when choosing the projects to be presented in the exhibition. The study will be followed by the “students’ work”. When the participants choose the students to participate in the scientific exhibitions, they first expressed their attention to “the students are volunteer”, “the interest in the exhibitions”, “the academic achievements” and previously “the participants to participate in the scientific exhibitions”. It has also been determined as the positive side of the exhibitions that the scientific exhibitions are "a beneficial event", "direct to scientific research" and "providing increased knowledge in students". Nevertheless, they expressed that the “project budget is insufficient”, that “the reporting work is difficult” and that “it requires hard work” as negative. Moreover, a small number of participants stated that the organization of the scientific exhibition was requested by the administration and kept mandatory. The reasons for students to participate in scientific exhibitions include the fun of the exhibitions, the sense of success and learning new things. Students have expressed that they are focused on the topics they hear about in general while researching the projects they want to participate in the exhibition. However, while researching the projects, although most male students receive assistance from the relevant institutions and organizations, girls students have been found to use resources such as scientific journals, books. Students who participated in the study, in general, pointed out the positive side of the scientific exhibitions as contributing to academic success and being able to offer solutions to the problems faced. Nevertheless, girls students expressed the problems encountered in the application of the BSB as a negative side, while boys students expressed the lack of communication with the teacher as a negative side.

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