Imkon Scholars: Иқтидорли ёшлар учун топ университетлар сари имконият

Ўтган йили ёзда қизим 9-синфни бошлаганда, биз уни АҚШдаги IVY League (энг нуфузли университетлар)га тайёрлаш ҳақида ўйлай бошладик. Танишларим Ўзбекистондаги Freshman Academy бу университетларга тайёргарликда ёрдам бериши ва кўплаб ёшларни 100% грант билан ўқишга киритганини айтишди. Шу тариқа мен Yale университети битирувчиси ва Freshman Academy асосчиси Валера билан танишиб, унинг консалтинг хизматларини олдим.

Суҳбат давомида Валера Ўзбекистонда иқтидорли ёшлар жуда кўплигини, аммо кўпчилигининг молиявий имконияти чеклангани сабабли тахминан $8 000 турадиган бундай хизматларни ололмаслигини айтди. Ҳатто айрим ёшлар дунёнинг топ университетларидан $300–400 минглик грант ютиш мумкинлигига ҳам ишонмайди. Яъни, кўп ҳолларда биз ўз имкониятларимизни тўғри баҳолай олмаймиз.

Шунда мен Валерага: «Агар шундай иқтидорли ёшлар бўлса, камида 4 нафарига мен ёрдам бераман», дедим. Валера ҳисоб-китоб қилиб, агар 10 нафар талабага бюджет топилса, харажатларни анча тушириш мумкинлигини айтди. Мен қўшимча 6 нафар талаба учун ҳам маблағ излашни бошладим ва дўстларим билан гаплашдим. Бир нечта дўстларим бу ғояни қўллаб-қувватлашга тайёр эканини билдиришди. Натижада биз 10 нафар эмас, 20 нафар талаба учун маблағ йиғдик.

Икки ой давомида дастурни тайёрладик ва бугун Freshman Academy билан ҳамкорликда молиявий имконияти чекланган 20 нафар иқтидорли талабага дунёнинг топ университетларига киришда ёрдам беришни бошлаяпмиз. Танлов ҳақидаги маълумотни талаба бўлишни истаган танишларингиз билан улашсангиз мамнун бўламиз.

Дастурнинг мақсади — 20 нафар талабага топ университетлардан 100% грант ютишга кўмаклашиш. Бу ёрдам эвазига сўраладиган ягона нарса эса — келажакда Ўзбекистон ва ўзбекистонликлар ривожига ҳисса қўшиш.

Тўлиқ маълумот ва ариза топшириш учун: https://imkon.org

Шунингдек, ушбу ташаббусни қўллаб-қувватлаган дўстларимизга алоҳида миннатдорчилик билдираман:
Зафар Хашимов, Мурод Назаров, Лазиз Адҳамов, Ботир Арифжанов, Иброҳим Мамасаидов, Анвар Ирчаев, Алишер Тожиев ва Ҳикмат Абдурахманов.

Дастур бўйича янгиликлар ва тажрибалар билан мунтазам бўлишиб бораман.

Видео ҳажми катта бўлгани сабабли, уни бу ерда томоша қилишингиз мумкин.

@paiziev24

Imkon Scholars Bullet Points

Apply earlier: We will start reviewing the applications soon, so the earlier you apply, the more time we will have to schedule the interview.

Fund: We have so far secured $75K of $100K. We will hold a few fundraising dinners and meetings to secure the rest of the funding, which we may need by June or so.

Team: We are bringing in new team members and expanding the team for the project, some of whom will move to Tashkent to work offline.

Expansion: If you want to help expand Imkon Scholars to other Central Asian countries by connecting us with regional businesspeople or politicians, feel free to reach out at partnerships@freshman.academy.

Target audience: We offer this opportunity specifically to students who cannot afford such services. We focus on families making $10K per year or less, or $3K per child if the family is large.

Share! Share! Share! We need as many students from underserved backgrounds to learn about this opportunity.

If you have more questions, ask in the comments.

Learn more: imkon.org

@valeranotes

First time participating in MUN.
My first impression is just a show where high schoolers pretend to be a real politicians.
I don't want to offend anyone who fell in love with MUNs. It's just not my thing.
I can't talk if my soul disagrees with what I say. Here it doesn't matter.
You just have to keep insisting on your point, whether it's right or not. The primary goal should be reaching a consensus, but I haven't seen it today.

Ramadan.

Tomorrow is an official start of the most blessed month among all others - Ramadan Karim! First of all, May Almighty accept your fasts, salahs, good deeds, and of course all prayers and sunnahs you do during this month.

In this month - the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hellfire are closed, and the devils are chained, your rewards are multiplied by many times, you get as equal amount of reward from sunnahs as you get from fard actions, and the fard actions are multiplied my even greater times more. Isn't a beautiful and high time to reflect on your past and present sins? Isn't a annual period where you should exactly work on yourself spiritually and come closer to your creator? YES!

Use this time to work on your all life-based skills such as planning, time management, sleeping routine, and productivity level.

And remember! Ramadan is not merely about not eating all day and going to tarawih, it is about purifying your body, soul, and mind!

@aguyinjapan

Hogwarts Summer School 2026 is open to applications🥳🥳🥳
Don't miss your chance guys.
This camp is worth going.
Mentors 👨‍🏫, networking 🤝, summer vibes 😎 and long-term memories ✨.
This is what Hogwarts will give you.
Inshallah, see you there this summer 🏖️👋

Technology Leaders of the Future (TLF) 🚀

An international full-ride scholarship program for ambitious teens (14–16) who want to go deep into STEM — math, physics, and computer science — and study at top IB schools in Europe.

We’re building the next generation of tech leaders 🌍

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📍 Join Our Offline Presentation

• What? Meet the TLF team and learn how to win a full international scholarship
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• When? March 1
• Who should attend? Students 14–16 and their parents
• Why come?
— Learn how the selection process works
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— Ask your questions in person
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🎯 Seats are limited.

Register here: https://centralasia.leaders.tech/

See you there!

I don’t feel 'home'.

The not so often talked about part of moving abroad at a young age is that you will never feel home again. The first couple of years, you are still exploring and excited to be out there, making friends and seeing places. You’re naive and innocent. You trust everyone and see the best in people. But sooner or later, that feeling of thrill fades. You simply get used to being a foreigner. You visit home once or twice a year, but you won’t feel at home. Everything is the same in a relative way, but you’ve aged in ways that are hard to explain. You feel it in every conversation you have. Would you stay if you knew this would happen? Probably not. Because at the end of the day, you chose this to create a better life for yourself and the people you love. Soon you lose the idea of what a better life even means for you. It is certainly not the unease of never belonging. But you will keep going so that you can provide that promised better life for others. It comes at a cost of losing what could’ve been a better life for you. The loss of moments in the hopes of giving back.

Moments of washing the dishes in the kitchen with your siblings. Experimenting with a new recipe with your mom. Discussing worldly affairs with your uncles around the big family table. Listening to your father’s stories from when he was in the army as he grilled kebabs. You would give a lot just to have back one of those plain afternoons when you didn’t know what to do and ended up wandering around the house for hours. Early spring, when the apricot trees would bloom and fill the whole backyard with their scent. Watching С лёгким паром ever new year’s, over and over again, and every time find the capacity to criticize Женяʻs character. Sitting around the messy table to debrief over freshly brewed green tea once the guests leave. Eating оливье and Шуба for days after the 31st, every time putting all your faith into not getting food poisoning.

You desperately search for this sense of home in everyone you meet. You trust, and try to see the best in them, with the innocence of a child. Because this is what we used to do at home, no? But you soon realize that it is not how life works. You grow more and more skeptical, a version of yourself you donʻt quite recognize. You desperately try to hold on to who you were once. I often yearn for that older, innocent self whose entire goal for the day would be to carve sculptures from yesterday’s snow or to somehow successfully ration the bus money to feed the dog I’d pass every day on my way home form school.

It is a sacrifice that will last a century. If you were to ask me what my favorite sound is, it would probably be the engine sound of VAZ-2017. Because it would mean dad is home. The only sound that could make me run. And how much I would give to hear it now.

And yet, the beautiful thing about being human is that no feeling is final. There is always a glimpse of hope that maybe one day you will feel home again. Maybe not in the same way, but it will feel okay. That there will surely be someone or someplace that will make it alright.

@feruza_dev