Saturday, 11 August 2018 LP2M Padang State University has officially opened the Community Partnership Program (PKM) as a manifestation of implementing the Tri Dharma of Higher Education in the Pesisr Selatan area and its surroundings. This PKM activity was immediately opened by the Chancellor of UNP Prof. Ganefri on the South Coastal Nyalo River. Innovative Product Design Training in the Framework of Preparing Independent Vocational Schools Graduates, held at SMKN 1 Tarusan Pesisir Selatan. Participants consisted of 8 representatives from SMKN 1 Tarusan and 8 representatives from SMKN 2 Painan. The activity at SMKN 1 Tarusan was immediately opened by the Principal of SMKN 1 Tarusan Gesrajoni, S.Pd. This activity is the second time the team has held at SMKN 1 Tasuran Pesisir Selatan.
PKM 2017 activities
The purpose of this training is given because the South Coast and Painan are tourist destinations that are being actively developed by the West Sumatra government. The first award as The Most Popular Hiden Paradise, should be a very good business opportunity to improve the economic standard of the people of the South Coast and Painan. This business opportunity should be used by SMKN 1 Tarusan and SMKN 2 Painan to prepare alumni to open their own job opportunities. This is because based on the 2017 BPS Indonesia report, the open unemployment rate in terms of education, most of them are high school graduates, namely 49.36 percent.
Training on Innovative Product Design in the Context of Preparing Independent Vocational Schools Graduates will be held for 4 days, 22 to 23 September 2018 and 29 to 30 September 2018. The training starts from providing material on tips for success in becoming a young entrepreneur and is followed by video tutorial shows making decorative lights from Ice Cream Sticks and continued with a mentoring program for the manufacture of training products from the PKM team of Padang State University.
PKM Activities 2018
During the activity, all participants were very enthusiastic and very diligent in participating in the activity. The decorative lighting products produced range from 2-3 units per participant, this is more than the initial target planned for only 1 unit per participant. Based on the questionnaire circulated, the trainees’ interest in entrepreneurship increased by 38% compared to before the training.
Training Products
The school hopes that activities like this will continue every year, especially learning entrepreneurship which is a compulsory subject in the SMK curriculum, which requires students to produce products based on their areas of expertise. This activity is a creative idea for entrepreneurship teachers and students in producing innovative products that are cheap but have sale value in society.
[News by: Irma Yulia Basri, S.Pd., M.Eng. – Chairman of the PKM Implementation Team]
