The ITERA Scientific League (LITERA) is an internal competition organized by ITERA student affairs to identify outstanding potential among ITERA students. LITERA is held to obtain candidates for both national and international competitions from among ITERA students. The various competitions held by LITERA include Scientific Poster Design, Indonesian Oration, English Oration, Community Technology Design, SDGs Ideas, Business Innovation, ON-MIPA, and KTI Idea Creativity 5.0.
The Food Technology Study Program sent delegates to each of the competitions held by LITERA. The Food Technology Study Program reached the finals in four competitions: business ideas, SDGs ideas, Indonesian oration, and English oration. The students representing the business idea competition were Zayna Sayyida Ulya, Intan Zahra, Annida Rafifa, Imam Nur Afin, and Muhammad Angga from the 2019 cohort. They created the product innovation “Nutriflakes”, a cereal made from sweet potato and tofu dregs to prevent stunting, along with soy milk powder for consumers who are lactose intolerant. Through their idea, they won the bronze medal in business ideas at LITERA 2021.
In addition to Zayna and her team, the representatives for SDGs ideas, namely Salsabila Hanifa Yolanda, Salsabila Umi Nurul Agung, and Luthfi Maulana from the 2019 cohort, won the gold medal at LITERA 2021. They proposed producing analog rice from breadfruit flour fortified with omega 3 for food security. Lutfi maulana, a member of the team named eijfoodies, said, “We are very happy with this result, and the judges also gave feedback on our idea to keep developing it, especially for entering national competitions.”
The Indonesian oration representative, Selviana Ayu Mustifa of the 2020 cohort, won the silver medal with an oration on sexual violence among students, while the English oration representative, Mutiara Annisa of the 2019 cohort, won the bronze medal for an oration on the use of coal energy. Zada Agna Thalita, S.TP, M.Si., student affairs advisor of the ITERA Food Technology Study Program, also expressed her happiness and pride in all the students who served as delegates of the Food Technology Study Program at LITERA 2021. She hopes that all students and the student association will prepare their best delegates for LITERA 2022, through a regeneration process from the senior students who achieved success this year. (ZAT/Food Technology Public Relations)
