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WHAT IS SIMURG?
SIMURG MATH & MIND GAME CENTER is a family company established by Nazan GUVENC, an English teacher and intelligence games instructor, and Ramazan GUVENC, a guidance counselor and intelligence games instructor, who have been in the education field since 2003. In the process, as two educators who have touched the educational lives of hundreds of students in private and state schools, we established the first and only "Simurg Student Coaching and Simurg Mental Arithmetic & Intelligence Games Center" in the region of Salihli, Turkey, on April 13, 2011. We continued our activities with children aged 3-12.
Until 2017, we continued with various activities both within and outside the institution, intelligence games competitions, and mental arithmetic competitions. In 2019, as a family that values education, we decided to move to Canada to provide a good education for our twin daughters (Idil and Ilayda GUVENC). We decided to continue our educational life with new content in Edmonton, Canada, as SIMURG MATH & MIND GAME on March 12, 2024.
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WHY DID WE CHOOSE THE NAME "SIMURG"?
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To be like "SIMURG" is to live...
To be able to rise again from our ashes...
Until we burn ourselves, None of us can escape from living in our swamp, in our nests, and our cages.
NOW IT'S TIME TO FLY IN OUR SKY...
The SIMURG legend was a myth I read 28 years ago. The real journey of a person is "the journey they make within themselves," and the power, the ruler, that a person seeks outside is "within themselves," it said.
In 2011, with this belief, with this philosophy, we set out on our journey...
We opened the first MENTAL ARITHMETIC and INTELLIGENCE GAMES CENTER of Salihli, the Aegean Region. Thanks to this system that we believed in and devoted our hearts to, we achieved very successful RESULTS, and most importantly, we added valuable, kind-hearted people to the SIMURG FAMILY. We had become a big family, sincere and genuine, devoid of artificiality... We decided to take a break on February 14, 2017. EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING... In 2019, as a family that values education, we decided to move to Canada to provide a good education for our twin daughters (Idil and Ilayda GUVENC). We decided to continue our educational life with new content in Edmonton, Canada, as SIMURG MATH & MIND GAME on March 12, 2024.
NOW IT'S TIME FOR SIMURG TO RISE FROM ITS ASHES IN CANADA, EDMONTON.
NOW IT'S TIME TO FLY TO THE SKY!
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LEGEND OF SIMURG
 According to legend, Simurg, the wise ruler of birds, lives in the branches of the Tree of Knowledge and knows everything. The specialty of this bird is that it resurrects from its own ashes...
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The birds trusted their wise ruler Simurg and thought that he would save them in case of any trouble. Something went wrong in the bird world, so all the birds of the world gathered together and decided to ask Simurg for help.
But Simurg's nest was at the top of Mount Kaf, high above the clouds. To get there, they had to make a very difficult journey. Together, the birds began to fly towards the sky. Those with little will and endurance gave up one by one on this difficult journey. There were those who got tired and those who fell. First the Nightingale returned, remembering her love for the rose; The parrot used its beautiful feathers as an excuse (although it was caged because of its feathers); The eagle couldn't leave his kingdom on high; The heron missed its swamp. When they reached Simurg's palace on Mount Kaf, thirty birds remained. When they entered, they heard a voice saying “Simurg is coming” and the birds bowed down out of respect. When they raised their heads, they saw their own faces in a huge mirror behind a curtain that opened and a loud voice echoed from behind “YOU ARE THE SIMURG!”
In the end, words solved the mystery: “si” in Persian means “thirty” and “murg” means “bird”. It means “Simurg - thirty birds”. Eventually the 30 birds realized that the sultan they were looking for, the Wise Ruler, was themselves and that the true journey is the journey to oneself. Unless we have the courage to be reborn from our own ashes, unless each of us dares to become a Simurg, we will not be able to escape living in our swamps and cages. Now is the time to fly in our own skies...
Now is the TIME TO BE A SIMURG!