HumasUPNVJ - State Defense Campus, UPN Veteran Jakarta continues to produce extraordinary generations of changemakers. During the Covid-19 Pandemic like this there were still many UPNVJ students who continued to work actively, such as several students from the Faculty of Health Sciences who joined in one team, the Undergraduate Nutrition Study Program who collaborated with Public Health Study Program students and the UPNVJ Law Study Program which consists of Bayu Saputra, Jovanka Adina, Rayhan Malano, Prisca, and Sartika with supervisor Dr. Ibn Malkan Bahrul Ilmi, S.Gz,. M.Sc, won the Gold Medal in the Asean Innovative Science Environmental and Entrepreneur Fair (AISEEF) competition, in the Innovative Science category with an innovation entitled " Utilization Of Egg Shell Flour, Jackfruit Seed Flour And Banana Weevil Flour As Ingredients For Making Biscuits" on 05 February 2022.
The Asean Innovative Science Environmental and Entrepreneur Fair 2022 is an international research competition organized by the Indonesian Young Scientist Association in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University and supported by BUCA IMSEF Turkey and the Malaysia Innovation Invention Creativity Association . This event is in the form of a research exhibition and is held offline and online .
The UPNVJ Public Relations Team took the opportunity to conduct an interview with one of the team members, Bayu Saputra. Bayu talked about the preparation process that he and his team did, “Because this competition is quite prestigious in the international arena, we also want to further develop our interests and abilities in competing in a field with a wider range of participants. In this competition, all participants came from 20 countries with a total of 427 teams (around 2000 participants). Because it is still during the Covid 19 pandemic, this activity was carried out in a hybrid manner, so it was carried out offline at Diponegoro University Semarang and online at the Zoom Meeting Platform (2 - 5 February 2022)," he explained
"The preparations were of course carried out very intensively for about three months, starting from the process of gathering ideas, making product samples, to the product testing and paper preparation stages," Bayu continued.
Bayu also shared the joys and sorrows of the journey he and his team went through, "Of course during the process we experienced several obstacles. The main obstacle is due to the pandemic. We live far apart and our different educational backgrounds make us have to make a lot of time adjustments to discuss in preparing the project . However, on the other hand, we feel that our friendship is getting stronger because of our project . The unification of thoughts to solve problems makes our point of view wider and more open," he explained
Bayu and the team hope that the other friends can always give their best work for their beloved campus, "It is my hope that my friends and I will be able to further develop this research and contribute in providing new innovations, especially in the social and scientific fields. We also hope that this achievement can be used as a whip of enthusiasm for other friends who are currently teaching at UPNVJ," closed Bayu enthusiastically.