Prof. Dr. Gultekin Cakmakci from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey gave a general lecture at UNY Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. He presented Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). STEM has been the latest approach that is growing rapidly lately. This program has attracted UNY lecturers and students. Most of students are from chemistry education and physics education.  Prof. Dr. Gultekin started his presentation on STEM introduction.

New student of UNY Social Sciences Faculty attended Festival Gedung Merah or commonly refered as FGM.    The event was held at Taman Pancasila UNY and attended by around 650 new students. The festival was held annually by the committee of new students’ orientation. This event is expected to entertain and introduce 15 students’ organization, community and students club activity to 2019 freshmen. 

Team K063 who participated UNY community service program held egg based cooking class in Ngentak II Hamlet, Kalibening village. The program successfully attract 37 housewives as participants and also attended by the head village of Kalibening.  This activity is set as a response on Ngentak II hamlet potential that branded the hamlet as a famous center for laying hen in Kalibening. The cooking class is expected to give added value for the produced eggs and opening further business opportunity.

UNY Graduate Students held an Inspiration Class at SDN Jetis Jogopaten, Sleman. This event is set to introduce various culture in the world for children in elementary school level.  There are 40 students  from SDN Jetis Jogopaten participated and 2 invited inspirators who were UNY international Students from China and Nigeria.

UNY has sent tennis and badminton team to participate in the International Sport Viesta Competition held at the University of Mara Technology (UiTM), Selangor, Malaysia on 31 July to 4 August 2019.  Each team consist of 10 students and accompanied by 2 official and 1 supervisor. In this competition, UNY tennis team win gold medal for team event category. For UNY badminton team, there are silver medal for team event category and individual men’s single category.

UNY new students from independent Selection Scheme invited to English tutorial at UNY Auditorium, Tuesday (6/8). This activity was attended by 1,255 students from the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Sports Science and the Faculty of Economics.

Zahra Noor A’yuna, Diqna (Biology Education), Ratna Hardiyanti Ma’fudhoh (Biology) and Rina Musannadah (Mathematics Education) are not only completed their academic course in their respective study program in UNY, but also  have interesting experience to share (5/8/2019).

There are three activities that must be completed by UNY new students, namely soft skill training; Pro-Tefl tutorials and English Language test; and ICT training. Those three are part of UNY attempt to make its students into excellent, creative, innovative, pious, self-reliant and intellectual person. By completing the soft skill training, it is expected that UNY graduates will be an exceptional alumni with good skill on communication, collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving as well as creativity and innovation.

Walitelon Utara village officially open “Kampoeng Dolanan Walitelon Utara” (Walitelon Traditional Game Village) Sunday (4/8). The event was held at Papringan Walitelon Utara, Temanggung. The soft opening was held in order to introduce the Walitelon Utara Village to the community, especially Temanggung Regency as a traditional game based village or dolanan.

Innovation is a must for education in this dynamic and competitive era. To improve this point, producing more literature relating to the study of innovation will be one of the efforts. Thus, students of graduate school on civics education published book entitled” Inovasi Pembelajaran Kewarganegaraan Abad Ke-21” (Innovation of Civics Education Learning in the 21st century) in collaboration with UNY Press. This book is a compilation of UNY students’ essays from class 2018 who took course on Civics Education Learning Innovation.