UNIVERSITAS HASANUDDIN

Department of Informatics

IndonesiaNEXT Season 5
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On August 19, 2021, Telkomsel Indonesia held a Crowning event to announce the best of the best talent IndonesiaNEXT Season 5. One of the finalists of this activity was Patricia Vhiola Palada (D42116514), a student of the Informatics Engineering Undergraduate Program Unhas. Patricia is the only participant from Unhas who has made it to this final stage and is a participant in the final group consisting of 39 participants from around 19 thousand initial participants from all over Indonesia. In this national competition, Patricia was successfully asked to be the Runner Up Talents Indonesia Next Season 5.

The following is a short story from Patricia about her participation in this IndonesiaNext competition.

Hi, I'm Patricia, a 2016 Informatics Engineering student, Runner-Up IndonesiaNext Season 5. I want to share about my experiences and benefits from participating in this event competition.

IndonesiaNext (indonesianext.id) is Telkomsel's CSR Master Piece program, since 2016. This program prepares students to face global competition at national and international levels with the aim that students in Indonesia become talents who are ready to compete with students from various countries at the regional and international levels. international. This year, IndonesiaNext was attended by 19,183 participants from all over Indonesia. Initially participating in this event because he wanted to get an international certificate for Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Excel. Registration opened in December last year and all of us participants did training for approximately 2 months to get this international certificate and it was time for the online test. The test results came out and I got the certificate. I thought that I was over and finished participating in this event because I already got what I wanted when I registered at the beginning and didn't expect much for the next level until I got a notification from the IndonesiaNext team.

 

The email I got said that I was invited to enter the next step, namely the Bootcamp Area where we had 130 people selected. It is makes me very happy and wondering of all the people, why me?. This news really boosted my confidence, which was initially hopeless and self-limiting. I take this opportunity to develop myself and broaden my knowledge and views. In the bootcamp area, I received training to train soft skills and met many great people. To be able to proceed to the next level, namely the national level, all of us participants are required to present creative and innovative ideas that can be linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The theme that I took was IoT in the world of health. It was time for an online presentation within 5 minutes to win the hearts of the jury, where the judges consisted of telkomsel officials.

 

Another luck happened, God listened to all my prayers until finally I passed the National Bootcamp stage with 39 participants remaining. This became a new challenge for me because it was the first time I participated in a competition event until it reached the 'National' stage with final student status^2. I feel proud to be able to carry the name of Informatics Engineering Unhas again at the National Bootcamp stage. Even though I only won as a 'Runner Up' with a fairly short preparation.

 

I learned many things from this event, starting from how to make a good presentation, how to communicate in public, make a wow CV, get a sociopreneur point of view, mental health, and many more. My hope in the future is that more Hasanuddin University students, especially from Informatics Engineering, want to get out of their comfort zone, find a support system that can help us to process, participate in as much training as possible, and remain thirsty to learn and develop ourselves. We don't know our limits if we stay and walk in the same place. I believe and all can be done with effort and prayer. Thank you.