Developing Communication Skill, ITB Students Snatched Three Trophies

Oleh Annisa Mienda

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BANDUNG, itb.ac.id-Who said that ITB students are bad in public speaking? Reza Marta (School of Business and Management '11), Ersha Nuranjarsari (School of Business and Management '11), and Inado Grace (Engineering Management '12) managed to win presenter contest titled "UNPAD Protocol Fair 2014". Three of them had proved that ITB students also have good communication skill. The contest, that was held on Friday to Saturday (21-22/11/14) by Protocoler Corps of Padjadjaran Unversity, was joined by various university around Indonesia.
 
 In the contest, ITB student successfully managed to snatch runner up for entertainment presenter as well as runner up and 2nd runner up for protocol's master of ceremony. In protocol's master of ceremony category, the participants was asked to arrange their own formal events such as inauguration of building and MoU signature. For enterntainment category, the participants was asked to host an event that had been determined by the committee. After passing the elemination round, ten participants were chosen to continue their journey to the final stage.
 
"Public speaking is very important and can be used in working environment to cooperate and negociate with others", said Reza. By communication skill, people can show and deliver their potency in a good way. Public speaking can also be used to enhance soft skill of ITB students. "One of the problems faced by ITB is unpublished research. Therefore, ITB students should have good public speaking skill to spread information about their researches to public", Reza added. This victory is considered as an evidence that ITB studets can also compete in the field that is out of their academic area. Moreover, it also explains that ITB students also have public speaking skill which can be proud of.
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