Semarang, tekkom.ft.undip.ac.id –Abdul Rozzaq, Djie Valencia Santoso, and Farhan Ryan Rafli, Computer Engineering students of class 2021 joined as one V374 Team, successfully becoming finalists in the Final Round of the Varsity Hackathon 2023 at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang on April 1 – 2, 2023.
Varsity Hackathon is one of the largest international hackathon events aimed at local and international students to compete to formulate solutions to various problems using technology. This year, the Varsity Hackathon is held in a hybrid manner where participants will take part in the preliminary round online and present offline at Universiti Sains Malaysia for the final round.
Team V374 along with 19 other teams from various countries participated in the final round series for two days. Valen, one of the team members said that in carrying out the hackathon, the distribution of tasks for each team member was very necessary. Ryan is in charge of completing the final project in the form of the “Nawasena” application, Rozzaq practiced presenting the results of the final project, and Valen prepared the presentation materials. With collaboration between team members followed by a mentoring session with Mr. Mohamad ‘Aizat Danial (Startup Ecosystem Executive from Digital Penang), the V374 Team was able to complete the final project to be tested on the second day.
Nawasena, an application developed by the V374 Team aims to be a portal for students and fresh graduates to find various job vacancies and internship programs. The application developed with the Flutter framework is expected to be used to help students and freshgraduates develop and train skills according to interests and talents which can then be applied through vacancies provided in the application.
The V374 team successfully presented the results of the final project in a Live Pitching Session with the theme “Lack of Career Exposure” in the 9th presentation sequence. “We are very grateful to get to the final round. Of course, this is a blessing from God Almighty accompanied by our hard work along with prayers and support from family, supervisors, Mr. Arseto Satriyo Nugroho, S.T., M.Eng., and other academicians, “said Valen. The V374 team also advised other fellow students to continue working and don’t give up easily. “We learn from every experience and there will definitely be other opportunities to achieve success in the future. Don’t forget, we build our own future with the effort and courage we have,” said Valen as a team representative.