What's happening in PresUniv
Two students of Information Technology Study Program, President University (PresUniv), Abraham Pardomuan Naiborhu (batch 2020) and Gilang Martadinata (batch 2018), qualified in the top 25 graduates of the Bangkit Academy 2022 program. In 2022 this program included 63,000 participants, only 1,300 participants passed, including Abraham and Gilang. On Tuesday (13/9), they were invited to attend the graduation ceremony of Bangkit Academy 2022 at the Directorate General of Higher Education (Ditjen Dikti) building, for being the 25 best graduates.
Bangkit Academy 2022 is one of the flagship programs for Independent Study at the Independent Campus in collaboration with Google, GoTo, and Traveloka. Apart from studying, in this program Abraham also developed an application called Tanamin with guidance from two mentors, namely Google Singapore and Gojek. This application aims to help farmers in managing crops. They created this application with five other members, namely Nanang Febrianto, Brylian Fandhi Safsalta, and Achmad Naila Muna Ramadhani (Dian Nuswantoro University, Semarang), and Rama Tri Agung and Shazi Awaludin (UPN Veterans Yogyakarta). The idea of ??Tanamin stems from the frequent occurrence of plant diseases, but farmers do not know what type of disease it is. They then made Tanamin which is able to identify plant diseases based on photos of the leaves. “We take a photo and send it to the application. Later the application will identify the type of disease and provide guidelines on how to overcome it,” Abraham explained. In the future, Abraham and the team plan to expand the app to include crop monitoring to meet the various needs of farmers, such as fertilizers, pesticides and expand the range of crop diseases covered. “We also plan to create a comprehensive business to assist farmers in selling their crops directly to customers,” he added.
From a total of 500 teams, Tanamin passed the selection to be in the top 15 for the incubation process and received an incubation fund of US$10,000. Apart from developing Tanamin, which is the capstone project for this program, Abraham also received many other benefits, such as learning mobile development for Android Apps, professional English classes, Product pitching training, public speaking, and others. He further said, "We were also invited to the Google building, spent time with the Google team, we learned a lot, and even met with PresUniv alumni who now work at Google." Another advantage he gets is that this program can convert to credits several of his courses in semester V. Abraham hopes that in December 2022 the final score for the Tanamin project place well, so that he can collaborate again with other teammates and Google partners to pitch for the second round funding. (Silvia Desi Betrice, PR team. Photo: Abraham Pardomuan)
