KM-ITB Prepared Students for Competing in PKM
By Bangkit Dana Setiawan
Editor Bangkit Dana Setiawan
PKM is annual event which is held by the Directorate General of Higher Education (Dikti), as a creative space for students who interested, talent and intellectual diversity. Ministry of Research and Technology KM-ITB, Steve Yudea (Physics 2010), explained that PLM is divided into seven categories, those are categories of technology, community surface, creative and initiative, entrepreneurship, research, scientific articlesm and ideas in writing. "Broadly, the selection PKM program begins with the selection of proposals and the proposal which is sucessfuly meets the stadardization of the comitee will funded by PKM and being eligible for monitoring and evaluation from PKM's comitee. After passed the monitoring and evaluation selection, participants have the opportunity to follow the national selection, and are required to present the result of their work in order to fight posters and presentation medals," said Steve.
In his speech, Steve said that PKM aims to increase research activities, scientific and technology development, and how those technologies can be applied in society. The aim of this socialization is to increase quantity and quality of ITB students proposal in PKM event. KM-ITB will provide assistance in the form of workshop and presentatiion training to teams whose proposals passed the selection.
As first step, KM-ITB established PKM service center which can be functioned as information media about PKM and a place to look for teemates from other courses and to find any ideas that can be submitted in PKM. "About 69 years ago, Bung Hatta asked to Bung Karno, do our childern can cultivate natural resources for Indonesian people's prosperity? Now its time for students to answer that question, not only by words but also by action and our research," said Steve cited the Soekarno-Hatta talks in the ending of his speech.