Semarang │UNIMUS (September 16, 2017) Student Executive Board of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (BEM FMIPA) in collaboration with the Student Association of Chemistry Education study program in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Uniaversitas Muhammadiyah Semarang (Unimus) held the Science Fair 2017. Several activities were held in this fair, such as Environment-pro National Seminar (Seminar Nasional Pro Lingkungan), a national-level waste processing innovation competition for students of senior/Islamic/vocational High Schools, and the Unimus Environment Ambassador contest.
With the theme “Empowering Human Resources through Waste Processing Program to Create the Next Generation of Pro-environment”, the event was held in the hall of Unimus and attended by 175 participants. dr. Gamal Albinsaid, a doctor and the CEO of Indonesia Medika who has won national and international awards for collaborating waste with the medical world, also attended the event as the guest speaker. For 2 hours, he shared a lot of tips to become a successful young entrepreneur by creating a number of innovations that could give benefits to the environment. “Innovations that we create should be not only to make money but also give benefits to many so that they can be made use of many years to come. Waste can be utilized by creating some innovation. We can start from an simple idea, to be the developed properly with a proper planning,” said the innovative doctor, one of the top 50 most inspirational people and an award recipient from the United Kingdom. “Empathy is connection in creating an innovation. When creating an innovation, we need to be sincere. Think of not only how to create money but also solve any social problem around us.” dr. Gamal explained.
The national competition for senior high schools was held in the hall of the Nurse Research Center at unimus. The competition was held to create pro-environment young generations. 11 teams from 5 schools in Central Java competed in this competition. Many unused stuffs had been not worth selling was reprocessed in order to be worth selling, such as durian seed crackers, hot drinks of carica powder, bags from jeans cloth waste, lighting fixtures from used bottles, etc. “Each team consists of 3 students, who create innovation from semi-finished wastes to be presented before the juries from Unimus at the peak of the Science Fair event on September 16, 2017” stated Nadya Permata, the governor of the BEM MIPA. Based on the final result of the assessment, the champion went to the team of state vocational high school SMKN 1 Wonosobo, who created “Carica Seed Coffee”, meanwhile, the first runner went to the team of state high school SMAN 1 Semarang, creating tissue papers from corn husk. And, state Islamic high school won the third place, with the product a skin medicinal ointment from banana peel”.
Chandra Fitriana, a student of the Undergraduate program in Nursing at Unimus was selected to be the Unimus Environment Ambassador 2017 in the. Prior to the selection, 25 students at Unimus participating as the contestants by writing essays on environment. Chandra, previously the Ambassador of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences (Fikkes) at Unimus, won the contest by writing an essay entitle “Applying an environment-based character education through Go Green In Campus”
Reported by the Technical Unit of Public Relations and Protocol.
