On Saturday, May 14th, 2016 one of the teams from Institut Teknologi Del whose members were its students named Polma Tambunan, Frans Situmeang, Josua Simanungkalit, and Agri Fina held the First Winner position in games category with their product “Magnetic Muffy” in the national-level ITC competition AMICTA 2016. The team was successful to be the Winner and brought home the prizes like cash, a charter and a trophy for the First Winner.
AMICTA 2016 is a competition organized to promote a culture of competition for Indonesian pupils and college students who have great accomplishments up to the national level. There are some categories in the competition, which include: Applicative robot, BattleBots, Digital Animation, Digital Interactive Media, E-Inclusion, Education and Culture, Games, Health & Well-being, Research & Development, SME Applications, and Tourism & Hospitality. AMICTA 2016 has been organized by AMIKOM Yogyakarta for 8 years now.
The first selection by the board of jury was conducted between January 21 and April 24, 2016. During this period the competed products’ proposals were collected. Then, on May 1, 2016 the participants advancing to the second stage were announced. The proposal titled “Magnetic Muffy” by the gipdee team obviously had succeeded to advance to the second stage. The second selection by the jury was conducted in AMIKOM Yogyakarta on May 14, 2016. The series of events on the second selection included product presentation from each category in the morning (8.00 am-12.00 pm), and it was resumed with the gala dinner and award night (06.00-10.00 pm). The guests invited were Septriana Tangkary, S.E,M.M as the Director of Informatics Empowerment from KEMKOMINFO RI and Kopertis Coordinator of Area V, Dr. Bambang Supryadi, CES, DEA. At the celebration night the Gipdee team was awarded as the First Winner of the game category for their game product “Magnetic Muffy”.
