A List of STEI Students' Achievements in Compfest 8
Bandung Institute of Technology has once again made its name known through STEI students who achieved several achievements in the "CompFest 8" event held at the University of Indonesia on Saturday-Sunday (17-18/09/16). CompFest itself is an annual national-scale competition held by the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia (Fasilkom UI) and this year is entering its 8th year. The following are profiles of several teams from STEI who achieved success in the event:
Bakpao Team
The "Bakpao" team, consisting of Neyssa Nathania, Astarina Natyasari, and Nicolosi Napitupulu (Information Systems and Technology 2013), won first place in the Business IT Case Competition at the 8th Comfest.
The Business IT Case Competition is one of the competition categories of the entire 8th CompFest event. This competition is a competition that requires participants to analyze a case and then propose a solution to the problem, the solution in question is a technology-based solution and the type of case given is also a simplification of real problems that occur in various multinational companies.
It wasn't easy for the three of them to secure first place. Various preparations had to begin while they were still on their internships. Although they were in the same city, their internships were located in different locations, making it quite difficult for them to find the time and place to work on their competition cases for the preliminary round. However, thanks to their hard work, the three of them managed to reach the top five in the final competition out of 75 participants from across Indonesia who qualified for the preliminary round.
But the challenge in the final was certainly more tense because each team had to work on a case analysis on the spot, they were locked down for 12 hours nonstop and then presented the results of their analysis to be assessed by the panel of judges. "Besides because it was my first time participating in a business case competition, another thing that made the atmosphere more tense was the judges who were very competent in their fields and gave us a lot of critical questions. Even so, we ended up finding out more things from their questions," said Asta.
However, the challenges that this team faced in participating in this competition actually received a positive response from the seniors in their department. According to Neyssa's confession, she felt lucky because many seniors were willing to help and were not reluctant to share their knowledge. After previously the "Bakpao" Team participated in 2 trainings held by the association and the support of lecturers and conducted trials to analyze various kinds of problems, the "Bakpao" Team was able to win first place in the Business IT Case Competition this time as well as the title of best speaker which was successfully achieved by Neyssa.
Choosing the name "Bakpao" as the team name is certainly not without reason. According to their confession, Bakpao is an abbreviation of "Batak Palembang Oke". Batak as the Neyssa and Nico tribe and Palembang which is the Asta tribe. "But besides that, the meaning of bakpao is also that from the outside it looks plain, not attractive. But after eating it, it turns out there is something special inside," said Neyssa. This name is the hope of the three of them, even though their team does not seem attractive to some people, they hope there is something special that they can give to anyone.
After winning first place for the Bakpao Team and best speaker for Neyssa, the three agreed that they learned many valuable lessons through this competition. "Just participate in competitions often, even if you don't win, it doesn't matter. By participating in competitions, our knowledge will expand. If we never participate in competitions, we won't learn anything," said Nico.
As the winner of best speaker, Neyssa admitted that she learned not to feel inferior or discouraged by her own abilities. "I realized that I should never belittle myself. Don't be inferior. Sometimes what we feel is not enough, turns out to be enough. This is a lesson for taking the first step in participating in the competition. And because we have been helped a lot by seniors, we also want to be able to have a positive impact on juniors. I want everyone to feel the same way," Neyssa concluded.
Tim Ainge CP
After going through nights full of struggle together, the Ainge CP team consisting of Luqman Arifin Siswanto (Informatics Engineering 2013), Muhamad Visat Sutarno (Informatics Engineering 2013), and Wiwit Rifa'i (Informatics Engineering 2013) succeeded in winning second place in the Senior Competitive Programming Contest (SCPC).
After passing the preliminary round of Compfest 8 held on August 20, 2016, the Ainge CP team finally advanced to the next stage, the final. This final stage was held on Sunday (September 18, 2016) and saw the 20 highest-ranked teams in each category meet and compete again, including Ainge CP.
Unexpectedly, the SCPC and Capture The Flag (CTF) finals were held simultaneously. This was certainly a surprise for the Ainge CP team, as one of their members, Visat, was also participating in the CTF competition. Therefore, they finally decided to continue fighting together even though it meant giving up Visat to participate in the CTF final. With only two team members remaining at the SCPC final, the Ainge CP team continued to tirelessly work on the Competitive Programming problems given. The first few hours were very difficult for the Ainge CP team. However, they refused to give up and continued to try their best despite many frustrating things. Their struggle finally paid off and proved that their determination and hard work could bring the Ainge CP team to the top two positions.
It turns out, the struggle to reap the sweet fruit of victory was not as short as imagined. When they first entered ITB, they had to get acquainted with a programming language they had never encountered before. They experienced many ups and downs because they had to start from scratch. In fact, these three students diligently studied other things on their own that could not be obtained by just studying in class, such as algorithms and other programming languages. "There is a lot that can be learned from online sources," said Luqman, the leader of the Ainge CP team. "If you can't, you can ask a friend who is already an expert." He also emphasized that results can only be achieved through hard work. In order to prepare for Compfest 8, the Ainge CP team disciplinedly practiced together online for several days at a time, almost every day.
"You have to be intentional. Learn selflessly," said the Ainge CP team when asked about their reasons for choosing to keep fighting. "We must remain focused on pursuing our goals. Even if we lose, even if we lose, we must still burn. Whether we win or lose, we burn with the same fire."
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