SU Students Participated 5MRP by SDP-AIT

The Asian Institute of Technology, through The Special Degree Programs (SDP), which oversees the Unified Programs organized a “5 Minute Research Pitching” competition on Innovative Ideas to help address the evolving problems of our society.  This activity was conducted to further strengthen our collaboration and partnerships with universities from different parts of the world.

The event gave opportunity for the emerging young researchers from 10+ countries to present their research idea and innovations. A total of 130 applications from 18 Universities were received and 80 applicants were able to make it to the final pitching competition event. There were 5 students from IBBA Program, International College of Siam University.

This 5-minute Research Pitch idea was adopted from the format of the globally recognized research presentation format called 3-minute Thesis (3MT) which originated in Australia in 2008 and recently became a popular format for research presentation.

This event was a 2-day activity. First day (29 Oct) was a workshop for the participants explaining the structuring of content and slides and briefing on the basic rules and guidelines of  the 5MRP. The second day (30 Oct) was the pitching competition where participants were divided according to their subject of study. The pitching competition categories were in engineering and technology, health and environment, social business, agriculture and food technology and information and communication and technology

A panel of jury was invited coming from different fields of expertise to evaluate the students’ presentation. After the competition, 4 students from Mariano Marcos State University (Philippines), 1 student from University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (Philippines) and 1 student from Visayas State University emerged as winners in this 1^st Research Pitching Competition by AIT.

Information drafted and provided by Mr.Ranadeer M (AIT)