On 6 March 2018, the external division in Himpunan Mahasiswa Matematika Universitas Pelita Harapan (HMM-UPH) held Faculty of Science and Technology (FaST) Festival for the first time. FaST Festival aims to build a stronger relationship between the six Himpunan Mahasiswa Program Studi (HMPS) in FaST (Food Technology, Industrial Engineering, Bio-Technology, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering). This event was held in Building D502 Universitas Pelita Harapan with over 100 participants. 

FaST Festival started out with a prayer and then proceeded with team building games that strived to enhance communication, creativity as well as cooperating skills. After that, we carried out dinner together and resumed the event with a highlight game. The first game that was executed is called “True or False”. In this game, participants line up in a vertical line then the MC will give several commands and each group has to do the commands in the sequence of true-false from the MC. The second game is called “Hula Hoop”. Participants line up in a line and they each must pass a hula hoop through their body without letting go of their linked hands. The highlight event was a game called “Object’s Talent Show”. Each group will make an item consisting of various materials. Then the existing groups will be combined into 4 ‘major groups’, and each ‘major’ group will tell a sketch about the items combined.

We are incredibly grateful for the enthusiastic participation of all members from the six HMPS. We anticipate that through this growing friendship, the six HMPS will have improved cooperation. We hope that in the future, our bond will grow stronger as well as intimate.