PIMNAS Team Department of Electrical Engineering Education Wins Most Favorite Champion and Favorite Presentation in The Category of Entrepreneurship Student Creativity Program

Another national achievement was achieved by students of the Department of Electrical Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering, Yogyakarta State University (UNY) in the 30th National Student Scientific Week (PIMNAS) held at the Indonesian Muslim University (UMI) Makassar on 23-28 August 2017. A group of students consisting of 4 people was chaired by Idea Ayu Astuti and under the guidance of Drs. Totok Heru Tri Maryadi, M.Pd won the most favorite poster and favorite presentation category PKMK-3 with the title el-ROBO (Education and Learning Robotic as a Solution to Child Addiction to Games).

The el-ROBO PKMK FT UNY team raised and made the problem of game addiction in children as their business potential. "Game addiction has become an inflamed problem, not only parents have to play an active role in minimizing, but other parties also need to especially the school as a place to get education for children. Especially at this time, the robot competition is a trend that many schools are opening robotics extracurricular activities. Based on these needs, it is an object for the el-ROBO team to develop a business in the form of robotics training. Besides being able to teach robot technology to children, the el-ROBO team also wants to divert children's activities from just playing games in a more positive direction, "said Ide Ayu. The team consisting of Idea Ayu Astuti, Lutfi Nur Indrawan, Andry Setianto, and As Anthsori shared the task of managing the el-ROBO business in accordance with the service marketing mix (7P) so that this business could produce outputs in the form of products (services and robots), learning tools (syllabus and lesson plans), and learning models that are ready to be patented.
"This achievement is the result of hard work from students, lecturers, and support and prayers from the entire academic community at JPTE. We are very grateful and proud because our students have extraordinary experience and are able to represent agencies in this national event. The acquisition of this favorite champion category, the Department of Electrical Engineering Education Faculty of Engineering is at least able to contribute to the achievement, so that UNY successfully ranked 10th in the 30th PIMNAS in 2017 in Makassar. "Concluded Mr. Totok Heru as the PKMK el-ROBO supervisor also accompanied JPTE students in Makassar 30th PIMNAS.