Four PBI UMY Business Groups Won SEBI’s Businees Plan Competition 2019

April 1, 2019, oleh: superadmin

In the present millenial era, creativity and critical thinking plays a more defining role for young people. Realizing this condition, PBI UMY students have been encouraged to turn their creativity into beneficial products/services. One of the ways to build their creativity and critical thinking is to join business plan competition.
From February 11st until March 7th, SEBI UMY held a business plan competition for UMY students. SEBI UMY is an internal institution of UMY that in charge of facilitating students to turn their creativity into actual products/services. Four PBI UMY business groups won the pitching sessions and will be granted with funding from SEBI. The four groups designs four programs namely Sedurasa Coffee Dripper (Muhammad Muaz’ group), GPS (Good Sap Natural Process) (Lilik Nurjannah’s group), Citraksa (Dodi Reski Irawan’s groups) and Warung Go-Diet (Dwi Okti Istiqomah’s groups).
Each of the programs offered their own own characteristic and uniqueness. The first program, Sedurasa Coffee Dripper, proposed to design its own coffee brewer made of ceramics. Then, the second program, GPS (Good Sap Natural Process) proposed to produce totte bags with unique patterns made from banana tree and jati leaves through echo-printing process. The third program, Citraksa (Cerita Anak 3 Bahasa) designed a story book which can promote character education for children in three languages: Indonesian, English and Javanese. Then the last program is Warung go-diet. This program is helpful for people who on dieting pogram. Due to consideration about the benefit and the ideas, this 4 program from PBI student succeed to get supporting fee from SEBI UMY.
In order to pass the selection process, according to a participant, Lilik Nurjannah it is not easy and need an extra effort. “The struggle were to find the ideas which should give beneficial for society and the product making was not smooth. We failed several times. We also needed to revise our proposal for several time”, she added. Another participant, M. Muaz stated that 4 out of 12 programs which passed SEBI selection process, 4 program were proposed by PBI students business groups. He added, “It proves that PBI student are be able to produce and find more creative ideas to benefit the society.”
(zizi/puput)