UGM became the largest contingent in the National Scientific Student Week XXX (PIMNAS) 2017 by sending 31 teams for Student Creativity Programme category. Preparations and practise have been done ahead of the prestigious event to be held in Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makassar, from 23-28 August 2017.
The UGM Student Creativity Sub-directorate runs training to prepare the UGM delegation for this competition. It is a mentoring progamme for the delegation to prepare strategies, running from 7-16 August 2017. Lecturers in Student Creativity training will deliver materials related to scientific writing and final reports. This event was officially opened by Rector of UGM, Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng., D.Eng., on Monday (7/8).
The Rector hoped the UGM delegation would be able to repeat their last achievement in 2014 where it became the grand champion.
“Now I trust that the capacities of the students this year are much better than other competitors. With high fighting spirit, hopefully you will be the grand champion of PIMNAS XXX,” said Panut.
During the training, Panut requested the students to make good use of the training so as to make maximum results in the competition and triumph.