Tel-U Won 3rd Place in NMBC 2015

Telkom University students once again make an achievement. The Tangkuban Team consists of Novia Yolanda Nadapdap (MBTI 2012), Almira Shabrina (Ikom 2013), and Made Kevin Bratawisnu (MBTI 2014), has successfully won 3rd place at National Management Brainstorming Competition 2015 (NMBC). The competition itself is held by Bakrie University on Wednesday & Thursday (26-27/3).

National Management Brainstorming Competition (NMBC) is a series of events from Management Brainstorming 2015. This year, Himpunan Mahasiswa Management Universitas Bakrie held this annual event with the theme “Youth Perspective to Enhance Indonesia’s Tourist Destination.”

In this competition, the Tangkuban Team came up with the topic entitled “Selfie 4 Social.” According to Yolanda, at the time, selfies has been a trend, especially for teenagers. She said, “As selfies trend are rising, it could influence the people about Indonesia’s tourism product.”

With the appearance of the selfies phenomenon, the Tangkuban Team come up with a program on how to take advantage of the phenomenon in social media and website to support Indonesia’s tourism, especially in the field of publication. According to Shabrina, this program is considered cheap, easy, and efficient. Besides, this program could reach every society, from youth to adults. She said, “This movement is common, but the effectiveness of this program can be predicted to reach 90% for Indonesia’s tourism improvement.”

To reach the final stage, the Tangkuban team must go through all the difficult phases. The team was succeeded to go through the challenge stages such as the essay collection phase, essay elimination phase, essay presentation phase, the debate in the top 8, and semifinal. Unfortunately, the Tangkuban team has been defeated by President University in the semifinal. However, they still got a chance to reach 3rd place in the competition. (Purel/EAD)