Ricky Armando Putra, Moh Lutfi Salim Al Hanani, and Iqlides Ahmad Miyaqi, the three students of the Physics Education Study Program, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, managed to eliminate dozens of student teams from other universities throughout Indonesia in the Scientific Writing Competition organized by Himafi Physics ITB Bandung.
To Public Relations, Ricky Armando explained the competition started from the preliminary round of collecting scientific research results. The ILR team (Iqlides, Lutfi, Ricky) managed to qualify for the top 5 of the National LKTI. This team has the right to present research results on the ITB campus on 9/2/2020.
Finally, Ricky et al. won 2nd place, beating other finalists from Brawijaya University Malang and 2 participants from the Surabaya Institute of Technology and ITN Yogyakarta. This ILR team created a DC voltage meter with sound output for visually impaired children in physics practicum.
"The concept promoted by our team begins with imagining how blind children study or do physics practicum," said Ricky.
"Let's imagine, when our friends who have limited abilities in their sight, when they take the SMP / MTs Extraordinary education level, they will still get science lessons with one of the subject matter about electricity, of course to help them the tools that are developed We have to relate it to the sense of hearing. We as prospective physics teachers want to help each other so that they are also eligible to study physics like other normal students by developing a DC Voltage Measuring Instrument (Voltmeter) with sound output." he added.
Ricky explained a DC voltage measuring device with a sound output can make it easier for practitioners of children with special needs who are visually impaired to determine the amount of voltage measured on the battery or ohm's law electrical circuit. This tool can make a sound according to the magnitude of the measured voltage. In addition, they revealed that in making this tool, the costs incurred were relatively cheap.
We thought of creating a tool with the lowest possible cost but good quality because the purpose of making this tool is that it can be mass-produced and donated to several notable schools in Yogyakarta, added Iqlides.
Hopefully, this sound output voltmeter can help students with special needs who are blind in carrying out practicum at school, so that blind students can take part in practicum, take measurements and find out measurement results so that it helps students understand physics concepts correctly, Lutfi hopes.
The ILR team hopes that the measuring tool they have developed can help blind students with disabilities because they (children with visual impairments) are also entitled to a proper education like us. According to the ILR team, their victory could not be separated from the patience and patience of the LKTI supervisor, Dr. Winarti, M.Pd.Si., as well as the lecturers of Physics and Physics Education at his campus, the Physics Education Laboratory Pranata, the integrated scientific laboratory, and friends from his class at the Physics Education Study Program at UIN UIN. (Weni)