hey, I'm ćao, ja sam Marko Popović

BuildingPravim

• 2023 – present 2023 – danas

  Cofounder and board member, EduCompass

  Suosnivač i član upravnog odbora, EduCompass

  Serbia has hundreds of secondary school programmes and no easy way to compare them. Mateja and I built the search we needed, back when we were the eighth-graders who needed it. It took first place at Project Week in 2023 and then grew into a registered nonprofit. 200,000+ people use it every year, free. educompass.rs

  Srbija ima stotine obrazovnih profila i nijedan jednostavan način da se uporede. Mateja i ja smo napravili pretragu koja nam je trebala, dok smo i sami bili osmaci kojima je trebala. Osvojila je prvo mesto na Projektnoj nedelji 2023, a onda prerasla u registrovano udruženje. Koristi je 200.000+ ljudi godišnje, besplatno. educompass.rs

• 2025, 2026

  Organiser, Spark Youth Conference

  Organizator, Spark konferencija za mlade

  A free one-day conference that pulls 150+ young people from across Serbia into one room for talks on AI, entrepreneurship, personal finance and education. Behind us are two successful editions, the second one being cofunded by the European Union.

  Besplatna jednodnevna konferencija koja u istu salu dovodi 150+ mladih iz cele Srbije, na predavanja o veštačkoj inteligenciji, preduzetništvu, ličnim finansijama i obrazovanju. Iza nas su dva uspešna izdanja, a drugo je bilo sufinansirano od strane Evropske Unije.

• 2026

  Organiser, Impact Competition

  Organizator, takmičenje Impact

  50+ high-schoolers, one day, one brief: work out how to get people your age off their phones.

  50+ srednjoškolaca, jedan dan, jedan zadatak: smisliti kako svoje vršnjake odvojiti od telefona.

CompetingTakmičenja

• 2026

  2nd place nationally, artificial intelligence

  2. mesto u državi, veštačka inteligencija

  Competed in solving problems with machine learning in the national olympiad in Belgrade.

  Takmičio sam se u rešavanju problema sa mašinskim učenjem u republičkoj olimpijadi u Beogradu.

• 2026

  3rd place nationally, programming

  3. mesto u državi, programiranje

  Solved competitive programming problems with complex algorithms. The result also took me to the Serbian Informatics Olympiad.

  Rešavao sam zadatke takmičarskog programiranja sa kompleksnim algoritmima. Taj rezultat me je odveo i na Srpsku informatičku olimpijadu.

• 2026

  3rd place nationally, mathematics

  3. mesto u državi, matematika

  The result I'm most proud of, and the one I worked on the most. Mathematics will always have a special place in my heart.

  Rezultat na koji sam najviše ponosan i onaj za koji sam najviše radio. Matematika će uvek imati posebno mesto u mom srcu.

RepresentingZastupam

• 2025 – 26

  President, Student Parliament

  Predsednik, Učenički parlament

  I take student concerns to the people who can act on them, and I run humanitarian projects. The most recent campaign collected funds for children's medical treatment. I was also on the organising team for a national humanitarian book fair, held in more than ten cities at once.

  Prenosim misli učenika donosiocima odluka i vodim humanitarne akcije. Poslednja je skupljala sredstva za lečenje dece. Bio sam i u organizacionom timu nacionalnog humanitarnog sajma knjiga, održanog u više od deset gradova istovremeno.

• 2025 – 26

  Delegate, European Youth Parliament

  Delegat, Evropski parlament mladih

  Three sessions, every one of them in the LIBE committee: human trafficking, online hate speech, press freedom. You meet your committee on Friday, have a resolution written by Sunday, then defend it in general assembly in front of everyone. Two outreach weekends in Subotica, then the national selection conference in Novi Sad.

  Tri sesije, svaka u LIBE komitetu: trgovina ljudima, govor mržnje na internetu, sloboda medija. Komitet upoznaješ u petak, rezoluciju napišete do nedelje, a onda je braniš na generalnoj skupštini pred svima. Dva autriča u Subotici, pa nacionalna selekciona konferencija u Novom Sadu.

• 2026

  Advisory board, Union of Secondary School Students of Serbia

  Savetodavni odbor, Unija srednjoškolaca Srbije

  I advise the managing board on day-to-day operations, fighting for students' rights.

  Savetujem upravni odbor u svakodnevnom radu, sa ciljem poboljšanja prava učenika.

Learning and TeachingUčim i predajem

• until 2028 do 2028.

  Gymnasium Svetozar Marković, Subotica

  Gimnazija „Svetozar Marković”, Subotica

  Natural sciences and mathematics. Average 5.00 out of 5.00. Competitions are the part of school I train for, and most of that training happens outside class, on old problem sets.

  Prirodno-matematički smer. Prosek 5,00. Takmičenja su deo škole za koji treniram, a najveći deo tog treninga se dešava van časova, uz stare zbirke.

• 2026

  Mentor and lecturer, Loop Foundation Summer Coding School

  Mentor i predavač, Letnja škola programiranja Fondacije Petlja

  Nine days in Sremska Mitrovica. Lectures in the morning, and mentoring students through the first video game any of them had built. Most had never written a line of code.

  Devet dana u Sremskoj Mitrovici. Predavanja ujutru, uz mentorstvo kroz prvu video-igru koju je iko od njih napravio. Većina nikada nije napisala nijednu liniju koda.

• 2025

  Guest speaker, Loop Foundation and UNDP

  Gostujući predavač, Fondacija Petlja i UNDP

  A talk at the same summer school on what happens when something you made in primary school turns into a service a couple of hundred thousand people depend on.

  Govor u istoj letnjoj školi o tome šta se desi kada nešto što si napravio u osnovnoj školi preraste u servis na koji se oslanja par stotina hiljada ljudi.

• 2022 – 26

  Student, Petnica Science Center and Loop Foundation schools

  Polaznik, Istraživačka stanica Petnica i škole Fondacije Petlja

  Technical sciences and electronics at Petnica. Game development and data science in Sremska Mitrovica and Kragujevac.

  Tehničke nauke i elektronika u Petnici. Razvoj igara i nauka o podacima u Sremskoj Mitrovici i Kragujevcu.

PressMediji 10

ElsewhereOstalo

• Toolkit Alati

  Python, C++, JavaScript, React, HTML/CSS

  Plus the fundamentals of machine learning, which I combine with my other interests.

  Uz osnove mašinskog učenja, koje kombinujem sa ostalim interesovanjima.

• 2025 – present 2025 – danas

  Football referee, up to the fifth tier

  Fudbalski sudija, do pete lige

  Assistant referee in PFL Subotica, referee and assistant in the seventh tier GFL, plus junior categories. Better preparation for handling angry adults than any debate I have been in.

  Pomoćni sudija u PFL Subotica, glavni i pomoćni u sedmoligaškoj GFL, plus mlađe kategorije. Bolja priprema za izlazak na kraj sa besnim odraslima nego bilo koja debata u kojoj sam bio.

• Running Trčanje

  5K in 22:35, 10K in 58:00

  5 km za 22:35, 10 km za 58:00

  Both are coming down. I run to beat myself, not anybody else. (but also for the Strava posts)

  Oba će pasti. Trčim da pobedim sebe, ne bilo koga drugog. (ali takođe i za Strava postove)