Zsuzsanna Tahy Szalay

Between 1987 and 2002, he was a mathematics and physics teacher, then an IT teacher, at Ady Endre High School.

With the support of the “Computer School for an Open Society” project, he has a pioneering role in the educational use of information and communication technology (ICT). For example, he created the prototype of the “digital party car” distributed in Sulinet in 2004 8 years earlier, which was also used by colleagues in his school. He is the developer of the Sulinet portal curriculum, a teacher training instructor, and an IT expert in the Soros Foundation Project Access – an American-Hungarian project aimed at IT support for the education of the deaf.

In essence, it is continuously involved in current curriculum and IT education developments. It participates in the development of graduation requirements, the preparation of graduation assignments, continuing education accreditation, IT teacher training and continuing education.

Since 2002, he has been an IT teacher at Szent István High School. He is one of the most successful teachers of IT-related talent development, a mentor for students' research and innovation activities. As part of project-based education, he participates in Thinkquest competitions, E-Twinning projects, and since 2008 in the Asia-Europe ClassroomNET projects.

Since 2013, he has been working on the methodology of teaching informatics (programming) within the framework of the Doctoral School of Informatics at ELTE IK. His topic is methodological research on the teaching of informatics and programming in public education, program design and engineering informatics courses.

His awards include: Tarján Memorial Medal (NJSZT, 2004); multiple Pro Progresszió Teacher Award; Graphisoft Award (Graphisoft Foundation, 2010); Bonis Bona – The Nation's Talents Award (2013). Furthermore, various recognitions for the work preparing for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the National Secondary School Study Competition (OKTV) and other competitions.