ITS managed to rise to 3rd place in the General Champion in the prestigious event of the 34th National Student Scientific Week (Pimnas) in 2021

ITS Campus, ITS News – A series of competitive activities for the 34th National Student Scientific Week (Pimnas) in 2021 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) took place online, has reached its peak. A total of 59 contingents from the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) also succeeded in placing ITS as the 3rd overall champion, up to one rank from the previous year, on the closing night of the prestigious event, Friday (29/10) night.

In this annual national-scale event, ITS managed to win twenty-one medals that brought home. Half obtained from the presentation category and the other half from the poster category. With details of the medals for the presentation category, as many as thirteen medals consisting of five gold, three silver, and five bronze. While, the eight medals for the poster category were divided into two gold, two silver, and four bronze.

ITS Director of Student Affairs Dr. Imam Abadi ST MT explained, Pimnas 34 is a long and broad student competition compared to other student competitions. That is because the preparation takes time and the application of various disciplines. “ITS pays great attention to this Pimnas. Where preparations have been made through socialization, training, to the previous ITS Student Creativity Program League (PKM) competition,” said Imam.

The atmosphere of emotion from one of the ITS teams participating in the 34th Pimnas when the PKM results were announced, which was punctuated by Vivat’s call every time ITS’s name named as the winner

From the achievements of the ITS contingent for Pimnas this year, Imam believes several strategies have been carried out well by ITS. Started from offline and online mentoring, presentation by simulations, to preparing articles and posters, which are known to have won many medals. “It’s just that the strategy for compiling articles and poster design needs to be taken seriously,” he said.

Furthermore, about evaluation, according to Imam, ITS needs to make improvements in terms of scheduling and also do mentoring internal and external lecturers, which certainly requires quite a long literacy. In addition, it is also necessary to pay attention to cooperation with partners to strengthen the implementation side of the PKM work.

Imam said, if this collaboration between partners is successful, students and ITS can continue to follow up on the outputs of this PKM. Namely to be disseminated in the form of scientific publications, both national and international seminars in journals that can register as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) belonging to the students concerned.

The Ksatria Emas 10 Nopember at the Pimnas 34, together with ITS leaders after the closing night of the 34th Pimnas by online

Despite the various obstacles and evaluations, Imam acknowledged the student’s extraordinary efforts. He said that all participants got a lot of benefits in self-development while participating in this activity. Especially the development of soft skills that train students to work together in teams of cross departments and generations.

The Physics Engineering Department lecturer expressed his hope for ITS students who take part in this year’s Pimnas to realize the values and innovations of their ideas to be applied to the community. ITS Advancing Humanity tagline and having a creative and objective personality will attract many students to PKM. “Until next year, ITS can be even better. If possible, every time Pimnas is targeting for the overall champion,” he said optimistically. (npabf/ITS Public Relations)

Reporter: Fauzan Fakhrizal Azmi