UNAIR NEWS – Good news comes from three students of English Language and Literature Department, UNAIR Faculty of Humanity. Tania Hairun Nisa Bahri, Andira Adi Fitria, and Nabilah Mahdiyyah successfully won 1st place and Best Presentation in National LKTI MOCE 2022 on Monday, June 27, 2022.
Moment of Civil Engineering (MOCE) is a national-level scientific writing competition organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universitas Bengkulu. In 2022, MOCE’s theme was Actualization of the Young Generation Role in the Research Development and Technology for Realizing Golden Indonesia 2045.
Creative ideas for KomiKoin
In line with the theme, UNAIR Team came up with a creative idea called KomiKoin. Tania explained that the KomiKoin is a digital webcomic that aims to provide financial literacy for students in 4–6 graders.
KomiKoin provides solutions for financial problems through technology to educate people to be financially and technologically savvy in facing Golden Indonesia 2045.
“Several features at KomiKoin are texts with visual images, animated video, and the savings record with parental monitoring,” said Tania.
Furthermore, Tania said that the MOCE LKTIN selection stage is the same as other writing competitions. The scoring system takes 50 percent from the participant’s full paper and 50 percent from the presentation result.
“First stage is a registration and abstract selection. Fifteen teams who passed will join the full paper selection. Seven teams were selected to compete in the final stage. These teams will present their ideas and do the QnA sessions with the jury. The last one is the winner announcement,” she said.
Tips for winning LKTIN
In the end, the girls shared some tips on winning scientific writing competitions for students.
Firstly, find a phenomenon or the latest issue at the national and international levels. Then, solve the problem through ideas that fit the competition theme with the highest potential to execute. Lastly, read a lot of references from journals and books to make the writing content more comprehensive and valid.
Author: Rafli Noer Khairam
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
