With Organic Park Idea, ITB Team is Ready to Join Semifinal in GSC 2013

Oleh Neli Syahida

Editor -

May 16, 2013

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Green Terrace team from ITB will join Global Student Challenge 2013 competition in June. Global Student Challenge is a competition which collect many kinds of innovation and entrepreneurship value. In 2013, this competition will be held in Hongkong Polytechnic University. Green Terrace team which consist of Amiril Pratomo (Mining Engineering 2010), Muhammad Fattah Aziz (Management 2010) and Musa Mujaddid Imaduddin (Management 2010) has ever participated in some national competition before.

Started by agribusiness concept, Green Terrance brought an idea to design construction of organic park in urban with full of aesthetics and uniqueness. Organic park will need a different treatment compare to ordinary park. It will be newest trend now because of its benefit for our health and environment. Generally, gardening can't free from pollution. Sometimes, it can lower quality of soil and water in some cases. Organic gardening is one of solution for us to plant many kinds of plants which contain more nutrition and less pollutant.

Preparing this competition is spending time enough for this team. They have to manage their time wisely between attending to lecture, student's organization, and the other competition. But, their motivation to keep on trying has brought them to final in Poly-U GSC 2013 competition. They didn't only develop organic park design consultation, but also method from plantation seed to harvest with unique way. Green Terrace also want to support that organic plants don't need complex treatment.

Green Terrace team is one of two participant from Indonesia which successful to semifinal chapter in Poly-U GSC competition. Another participant come from Ciputra University. Finalists of this competition also come from the other countries, like USA, UK, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, China,Australia,Vietnam, Philippines, Mexico, Ireland, India, Hongkong, Republic of Czech, and etc.

The last, Fattah hoped that they can inspire ITB students. Amiril also hoped that ITB lecturers also can support students' projects. "We just don't want to be graduate from ITB without any achievement," Musa added and ended this interview.