ITB Students Participate Competition in Germany

 

JAKARTA  - Sarah Ervinda, a student of Institut Teknologi Bandung, award-winning "The Best Project" will represent Indonesia in the Bayer Young Environmental Envoy (BYEE) 2011 in Germany.

Innovation and the effort she managed to put 11 finalists BYEE which followed students from various universities in Indonesia. Announcement and awarding the best projects in Indonesia BYEE held in Jakarta on Friday (16/09/2011).

Besides Sarah, the committee also chose Pradnyawati Made Dwi Ayu, a student of the Faculty of Medicine Udayana University, Denpasar, as the winner with Sarah. However, Dwi Pradnyawati elected not to follow the race BYEE international level. In recognition of their achievements, PT Bayer will facilitate Dwi Sarah and to study the facilities and environmental management practices in Germany and increase networking in the environmental field for a week along with winners from 12 other countries.

Committee Chairman BYEE 2011 Ratio Ridho said, innovation encouraging the participants this year because there is a fresh new idea, but the jury did not just pick an idea alone. "We see from the whole idea of ​​whether the finalists could realize it or not, and the leadership," said ratio.

President Director of PT Bayer Indonesia Thomas-Peter Hausner admire the tenacity of the finalists who continue to try new innovations in order to create protection for the environment.

Sarah makes environmental project in the form of waste production bioreactor. The idea he practiced in the village of deer Pananjung, Garut, West Java.

While Ayu Made Dwi Pradnyawati introduce healthy organic foods and healthy lifestyles to elementary school students in Bali.

Bayer since eight years ago this innovation competition held regularly every year. The main winners were sent to Germany to follow the same race at the international level.

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Brain can be trained to be sharper

Brain Fitness

Did you know that the child's brain can be trained to be sharper? Lecturer and Consultant BrainFit Studios Singapore, Regina Chin said, there is still hope to make a child's brain work better. One of them understand the importance of brain fitness and cognitive profile of children for parents. It was conveyed in a parenting seminar and workshop educators "Different Child, Different Brain, Different Needs", in Jakarta, a few days ago.

Regina explains, brain fitness is an activity to train the brain to have optimal capabilities and explore all the potential. Like climbing a mountain, it takes more ability. Similar to the brain. Many cells in it that we can train to be able to work faster and more acute. Because basically all of our brains have been ready if only to perform daily activities.

"So as parents we want to tell you that there is hope, there are ways that can help children become better as early as possible," said Regina to Kompas.com.
He added, many ways to train the brain power, and all must be adapted to the weakness. For example children who have difficulty reading or communicating difficult, then the child should continue to practice, the exercise of reason that children's brains can be much sharper and can communicate well.

Brain Fitness

"But if the weakness caused by something else, such as poor concentration or lack of coordination, of course there are other types of exercise. The bottom line is the pillar brain, visual, audithory, sensor motor skills, attention and memory, as well as social emotional, "he said.

In addition, Regina also mentioned the visual tracking, which is our visual ability to keep track of what we see. Not only what is in front, but also on all sides that unconsciously we actually track quickly. He revealed that every person has the ability to track different, if the ability to track a child's quite slow, then it will impact the child can not understand the reading quickly and even the child becomes not understand what they read.

"For example, when we drove, we saw the state behind, in addition to visual tracking capabilities and that's where necessary. The point is to invite children to bekomunikasi as much as possible. Because if strong in language, especially to hear then that is the key to academic success of children, "he explained.

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Brain can be trained to be sharper

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