On Saturday (24/2) at the FMIPA UI multidisciplinary research laboratory building – PT. Pertamina (Persero), FMIPA UI held an educational exhibition entitled FMIPA UI Open Days 2018. More than 200 visitors who were elementary school (SD), junior high school (SMP), and high school (SMA) students from Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) attended this event. They were accompanied by teachers and parents.
This promotional event, held for the fourth time at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA) at the University of Indonesia (UI), aims to provide information about studying at the Faculty, including admission pathways, study programs, academic and non-academic activities, scholarships, tuition fees, and graduate prospects. The event also introduced the undergraduate actuarial science program to students. The undergraduate actuarial science program is the newest program at the Faculty, and registration opened this year.
To obtain this information, students and their companions visited the exhibition booths of each department at FMIPA UI, namely the Department of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, and Geosciences (Geology & Geophysics).
In addition, students and their mentors also had the opportunity to participate in presentation sessions. These presentations were presented by each department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UI, with their respective heads as keynote speakers. There was also Fun Science from Rumah Science, which featured simple science games and experiments.
Not only that, to inspire students, atalk showsession was also held with several alumni of FMIPA UI as speakers, namely Nabil (Mathematics), Susilo Widodo (Physics), and M. Iqbal Syauqi (Chemistry). Both are the best graduates of FMIPA UI. Present as moderator, namely Yudhistira Oktaviandie. Biology student of FMIPA UI who is familiarly called Odie is the first winner of the Main Outstanding Student of FMIPA UI in 2017 and the second winner of the National Outstanding Student.
The speakers in the inspiring talk show revealed that there is no need to be afraid to study at FMIPA UI, there are many job opportunities for a career in the world of science. Because the majors included in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences UI are the foundation of all knowledge and many professions require experts in certain fields. For example, according to Nabil, the profession of analyst from the Mathematics or Statistics department is still very much in demand, even the profession that is currently most sought after and needed in the financial industry is actuary, namely an elite professional group in the field of financial risk. Considering the number of experts in the actuarial field is still very rare in Indonesia, and at FMIPA UI itself Actuarial Science is one of the newest undergraduate study programs. So, FMIPA UI graduates from the undergraduate study program in actuarial science will have a very good opportunity to become actuaries.
