Essay Student Competition 2019 is Competition for essay writing was held by Faculty of Psychology Sultan Agung Semarang Islamic University, especially by association Rohis Qolbun Salim. The theme appointed in the essay competition up is “ role of a Moslem student as an agent of change” with the option a number of sub-themes which are education, social, economic, and politic.
This competition held since early March for abstract and full paper assembly until April 6, 2019. Then has been done an assessment essay by a judge to be done the selection to determine the finalist. Announcement of essay finalist was April 10, 2019. There are eight teams be essay finalist including 1 team from Faculty of Psychology UGM.
The eight finalist teams do the presentation in Faculty of Psychology Sultan Agung Semarang Islamic University on Saturday, at April 13, 2019, in-room K 3.1. The final session agenda was started with an opening from the committee and welcome speech from the second vice of dean Faculty of Psychology Sultan Agung Semarang Islamic University, then continue with the presentation section from finalist.
Each finalist got number randomly was obtained when registration. Faculty of Psychology team UGM get turn the fifth presentation among eight finalist teams. Each team has 10 minutes for presentation and next session with Q n A with 2 judges as a lecturer from Faculty of Psychology Sultan Agung Semarang Islamic University.
Psychology UGM team consisted of Oom Qomariyah (grade 2015) and Sekar Dewi (grade 2018) brought essay with the title “TUVID (Fortune-Video) as an enhancement well-being” including social sub-theme. This Essay describes a solution by application made for increasing happiness of adolescents with easy and simple way.
On the last final session, Psychology UGM team won runner up. Oom as a chairman of essay team revealed “Although essay idea was simply added by the time of short preparation did not reducing our team’s spirit to present our creation well, so we could achieve runner up. Other than that, we also could learn much more new things from other finalists have. We hope next time could give a contribution better than today”