ITS won the most runners-up and medals in the final standings of the XIII Gemastik competition in 2020

ITS Campus, ITS News – The prestigious 13th National Student Exhibition for Technology, Information and Communication (Gemastik) competition in 2020 that happened boldly passed its peak, Friday (22/10) afternoon. The contingent from the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) managed to close the event by winning the title of runner-up as well as winning the most medals.

The following 11 categories are contested, namely Programming, Cyber Security, Data Mining, User Experience Design (UX Design), Animation (Animation), Smart City (Smart City), ICT Scientific Writing (ICT Scientific Paper), Software Development, Smart Devices for Systems. Embedded and IoT (Smart Devices, Embedded Systems, and IoT), Game Application Development (Game Development), and ICT Business Development.

The chairman of the ITS Contingent at the 13th Gemastik, Hadziq Fabroyir SKom Ph.D., explained that the ITS contingent managed to bring home seven medals from the 11 competition categories that participated. In detail, there are two gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals from a total of 37 ITS teams that entered the final round. “All teams have put out their best and deserve the award,” he said.

The ITS Sinpsher Team when crowned first in the Game Application Development category at Gemastik XIII

For the gold medal, the Sinpsher Team from the Game Application Development category won the gold medal. They managed to be the best in developing traffic-driving educational games that were packaged in the form of card games. While the second gold medal was donated by the NCC Lab Team as the best in the category of Software Development. They managed to attract the jury through psychological consultation and legal aid applications for victims of violence against women. “For the NCC Lab team, the idea was very comprehensive and during the final they were very creative and wowed the jury, thus leading this team to win the gold medal,” said Hadziq.

When the ION team was announced as a silver medalist in the Smart City category at Gemastik XIII

While the silver medal was successfully contributed by the ION Team who participated in the Smart City category, the Digifilux Team from the User Experience Design category, and the Scam Team from the ICT Writing Competition category. The TOLE Team won the bronze medal in the Software Development category. Likewise, the Malwin Team also contributed a bronze medal in the Data Mining category.

In addition to achievements that were achieved in the major race categories, contingent ITS also secured the other awards that runner of the race category Animation acquired by Key Frame Team. Also, three other teams won the hope, namely the Cr2 Team from the ICT Writing Competition category, the Important Sure team from the Software Development competition category, and the Setrumaster team from the Intelligent Device Immersion System and IoT category competitions.

When the NCC Lab ITS team was announced, they won gold in the Software Development category at Gemastik XIII

Despite winning many awards, ITS still has not succeeded in bringing home the Samakbya Padhesa Widya trophy as the overall champion at the 13th Gemastik. The points obtained by ITS have not been able to surpass the defending champion who this time again became the overall champion, namely, the University of Indonesia, with a total of three gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal.

The success achieved by the ITS contingent this year cannot be separated from the strong cooperation of the contingents. Starting from the finalists to the role of the supervising lecturers and also the Guard Team who always provide direction and evaluation, thus spurring all teams to give the best results. Full support from the ITS bureaucracy also provides positive energy for participants with the ideas and input given. “In terms of quality and technicality, I am sure that the work created by the entire team is mature and superior,” added the lecturer at the Department of Informatics Engineering.

In the future, according to Hadziq, the preparation for the Gemastik competition will be carried out for a long time, so that the results obtained can be maximized. There will be a monitoring system or direct mentoring to cross-assess the work of participants. As well as the implementation of quarantine so that the finalists can focus on the tournament that is being followed.

The atmosphere of watching together the announcement of the 2020 Gemastik XIII champion at the ITS Science Tower

The role of alumni who have participated in similar competitions will also be intensified, starting from thinking about ideas or concepts at the beginning, making programs and media, to making presentations and demonstrating their work. “Like what we did this year by providing public speaking training to all finalists which were conducted with one of the presenters of Kompas TV, Woro Windrati,” he said.

Hadziq concluded by advising that preparations for next year must be further enhanced and more cooperation from various parties is needed. The longer preparation time and the implementation of finalist quarantine also allow for internal selection so that superior works from students can be selected. “Hopefully ITS will be able to succeed in becoming the General Champion in the 14th Gemastik in 2021,” concluded the lecturer who also has expertise in human-computer interaction and virtual reality (VR). (bob/ITS Public Relations)