UNY Faculty of Engineering students have produced many innovative works. These various works can undoubtedly inspire the development of further innovations. For this reason, in celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Faculty of Engineering UNY, the Engineering Technology Student Activity Unit held a robotics exhibition on February 7, 2022.

Javanese farmers traditionally use memedi sawah or scarecrow to protect their crops, especially rice, from bird attacks. The custom of installing memedi  sawah as part of local ecofriendly tradition  on the rice fields has attracted students of the Social Sciences Education Study Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, UNY, who researched the values ​​ in the memedi sawah festival in Bantul. They are Basid Elmi Izzaqi, Diah Nadiatul Jannah, Rina Suhartanti, Eva Riska Amalia and Marlinda Putri.

Program Pejuang Muda or Young fighter Program is a social laboratory for students to apply their knowledge and knowledge to make a substantial social impact in society. In addition, this program is part of the Merdeka Campus Program under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, and the Ministry of Religion, which every Indonesian student can participate in.

UNY held online talent mapping for Jeddah and Makkah Indonesian School students on Thursday, February 3, 2022. In this activity, the UNY psychology team led by Dr. Rita Eka Izzaty, M.Sc. will assess the students of class XVII Jeddah, totaling 40 students and from Makkah as many as 8 students. Also attending this activity, Sutikno, M.Pd., as the principal of SILN Jeddah and the Acting Principal of SILN Makkah.

Teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic requires teachers to adapt to online learning systems and use effective media. The impact of the online learning system that has been running so far certainly affects the psychological condition of students on learning so that alternative strategies for delivering learning materials are needed that are more interesting and meaningful. This problem has caught the attention of UNY lecturers, namely Dr. Dyah Purwaningsih, M.Sc. (Chemistry Education Study Program), Dr. Pujianto, M.Pd. (Physics Education study program) and Anik Widiastuti M.Pd.

Career skills are essential to face dynamic changes in various work. Career skills consist of curiosity, perseverance, flexibility, optimism, and risk-taking. Therefore, it makes sense to place career skills as an essential aspect that needs to be instilled through learning in vocational education. Furthermore, the physical and mental experience that students get in the form of seeing, feeling, holding, and real-life working experience is a form of Tacit Knowledge that cannot be obtained through ordinary learning.

Kulon Progo Regency is one of the five regencies/cities in the Special Province of Yogyakarta, which is located in the western part. Kulon Progo Regency has a varied topography with an altitude between 0 - 1000 meters above sea level, which is divided into three regions. The Menoreh plateau/hills in the northern part with an altitude between 500 to 1000 meters above sea level. The middle part has a height of 100 to 500 meters above sea level. Finally, in the south is a lowland with a coastal area of ​​24.9 km.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the government encouraged the implementation of online learning at schools and higher education. Online learning is quite effective in preventing the spread of Covid-19, but this distance learning model is less effective and poorly affects the quality of education. Along with massive vaccination, the government then also encourages limited face-to-face learning. Unfortunately, in some cases, the implementation of face-to-face learning has also led to Covid-19 clusters in several schools.

Dysgraphia is one of the learning difficulties characterized by difficulties in expressing thoughts in writing composition. In general, the term dysgraphia is used to describe abysmal handwriting. Children who have dysgraphia may write very slowly, their writing may be very illegible, and they may make many spelling mistakes because of their inability to mix sounds and letters. Dysgraphia usually occurs when a child first interacts with letters, namely when the child is about six years old, or it can be said when the child is in elementary school.