UGM sends 34 teams to the 23rd National Student Scientific Week that was held at the Mahasaraswati University, Bali, from July 21 to 24. The 34 teams consist of nine teams of Entrepreneurship Student Creativity Program, eight teams of Writing Ideas, seven teams of Technology, 6 of Society, 4 of Research Team.
Proposals for Entrepreneurship Student Creativity Program that have passed the selection of the current Scientific Week are the Delicious Breadfruit Bakery: The Economic Value of Local Healthy Diet, Orange Spice’s Fried Nut, White Oyster Mushroom Cultivation As Alternative Nutritious Vegetarian Food, and Tirex Burger: Alternative Burger with Fibers Value. Furthermore, Bakpia Bekatul, Mushrooms Tongseng As Chemical Drug Side-Effect Solution, Various Pletok Beers as Ready to Serve Beverage, Health Distribution Store: Creative Clothing Business, and Developing Entrepreneurship of "Kruckies" Veil.
For the Writing Ideas category, the selected proposals are: Infiltration Pore Pipeline Innovation for Flood Prevention in the area of Solid Urban Population, Savoir Code Applications as Morse and Braille Letter code Substitution for Humanitarian Interest and Military Communication, Tobacco Land: Invest for Indonesia Health, and Cultural Communities Participation-Based Market in Organic Waste Management. Next are: Early Warning System Security of ATM Machine, Chemoherbal Mobile, Jogja Disaster Education Park as the center of Disaster Education in Yogyakarta.
The next in the Technology category are the Automatic Solar Clothesline Innovations, Small Scale Sea Water Desalinator with Renewable Energy Sources and Micro-hydro Control, Portable and Energy Efficient Digital Height Measuring Instrument, Web-Based Hajj Simulations Software. Following are: SMS and Feedback-Based Remote Home entrance Security System, Multi-feature Microcontroller-Based Digital KWH Meter Innovation, and Application of Land and Real Estate Advertising through Mobile Devices with Interactive Map Visualization.
Furthermore, for the Community category are: Sex Education for Teenagers, Ettawa Bread as Alternative Daily Menu For Early Childhood, the Elderly Empowerment through Community-Based Weaving Enterprise Development. Furthermore, Biogas Potential Optimization in Boyolali as an Alternative Solution to Illegal Logging, the Development of Thousand Independent Cadres using Multilevel Marketing Method to Prevent Low Weight Babies Birth Case, and the Increase in Community Economic Enterprises through Batako Production in Gunung Kidul.
Finally, of the Research category there are: the Banana Plants Stem Effects Of Post-Tooth Extraction Injury Healing Process, Synthesis of 1,3-Bis Urea from Modified Gama Vuton As Efforts to Improve Anti-Cancer Activity, Cream Containing Growth Factor Potency On Healing Speed of Wounds in Dogs, and Calprotectin levels of gingival crevicular fluid as a Biomarkers candidate of Periodontal tissues Inflammation in Stress Patients.
UGM Student Affairs Director, Drs. Haryanto, M.Si, on the sidelines of the event in Bali (21/7) stated that the number of UGM participants increased from the previous year. "This year we send more participants compared to last year. The hope is that UGM can achieve maximum results this time," he said.