Certification and Education Division from Microsoft Innovation Center held workshop training "Junior Mobile Cross Development with Xamarin". Following one of the benefits from Microsoft YouthSpark 2017 which was held on May 15, 2017 and supported by Microsoft Innovation Center Yogyakarta, the winners were invited to take workshop training of Technology Learning Package. The training was held for 3 days of face-to-face meetings and 2 days of self-directed learning online. This event was held on August 04, 2017 until August 06, 2017 held at Laboratorium Jarkom DTETI Engineering Faculty, Universitas Gadjah Mada. This event was attended by 13 participants coming from students and teachers fr...

Certification and Education Division from Microsoft Innovation Center held workshop "Imagine Academy Office". This workshop attempted to learn about the preparation of Microsoft Office Specialist Certification. Demonstrate that participants have the skills needed to get the most out of Office by earning a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in a specific Office program like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This event was held on July 10, 2017 until July 12, 2017 held at Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta. This event was attended by 14 participants coming from lecturer. In Microsoft Office Specialist Word 2016 preparation of certification exam, participants will have a fundamental u...

Microsoft and YCAB Foundation and local government of DIY again held Jogja Cyber Province event located at Wanitatama Building Yogyakarta starting at 09.00 until finished. Jogja Cyber Province which lasted for two days has one of the activities of Realization Jogja Cyber Province which was held on the second day, May 16, 2017. Press Conference was attended by Muhammad Farhan as YCAB General Secretary, Ruben Hattari as Director of Corporate Affairs Microsoft Indonesia, and Baskoro Aji as the Head of Education Office of DI Yogyakarta Province. The 15-minute Press Conference shows the press's great attention to academic and social activities, where some media, broadcasters, printers, and bl...

Microsoft YouthSpark is a global initiative for young people to study computers and prepare them to grow independently within the community. In these 4 years, Microsoft has given these opportunities to more than 300 million young people in the world. Many of those who have been able to provide change not only in their own lives but also into the lives of others and have a real impact in the community. Since 2013, Microsoft has collaborated with Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) to hold Microsoft YouthSpark in Indonesia, YCAB itself focuses on developing and empowering young people. This program focuses on giving young people the opportunity to learn programming, as well as trying to apply...

Saturday (22/04) Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) Yogyakarta held Global Azure Bootcamp 2017. This is a simultaneous event conducted in several countries. In this event, MIC Yogyakarta brings a special theme about "Azure as Digital Transformation Platform to Preserve Tourism and Culture", this is in accordance with the position of Yogyakarta as a city of tourism closely with the culture. The event was followed by various circles, ranging from students, educators, developers and startup. Approximately 20 people attended the event at Jogja Digital Valley. There are two speakers in this event, Dr. Ridi Ferdiana (Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio, Researcher, MIC Lead) and Erick Kurniawan (Mi...

Microsoft YouthSpark has entered the third phase with the different theme from the previous workshop. In the first workshop, the participants learned about Kodu and the second workshop using Minecraft, then at the third workshop, participants were taught to create a game world using CS Unplugged and Project Spark. Workshop CS Unplugged is a series of Microsoft YouthSpark 2017 Yogyakarta focused on improving the educational competence and competitiveness of students in the field of Science and ICT (Information and Communication Technology). This activity focuses on the teaching and practice of computer science relating to the recognition method without using a computer. This method was stu...

As a continuation of the previous workshop, certification and education division, Microsoft Innovation Center in collaboration with E-library, Faculty of Engineering UGM held workshop "Word for Academics" phase II. In this event, it covered the same materials as the previous workshop. This workshop attempted to discuss how to create Word formatting. As a variant of Microsoft Office ProPlus, Word offers a variety of features to Facilitate the user in composing and writing documents. In the academic field, either schools, colleges or other educational institutions, there are many conditions that must be affixed in the preparation of the document, such as writing research reports, thesis or ...

In educational environments, creating paper or research is something that must be done by academics. Various issues arise related to the manufacture of paper template. Most scholars make the format in the form of a manual and they do not know that Microsoft Word provides an automatic feature that will certainly facilitate in creating paper format. Therefore, Certification and Education Division, Microsoft Innovation Center in collaboration with E-Library, Faculty of Engineering UGM held an workshop with the theme "Word for Academic". As a variant of Microsoft Office ProPlus, Word offers a variety of features to facilitate the user in composing and writing documents. In the academic field...

One of 21st century challenges at education field is preparing graduates students who can compete in the global competition. New ways are needed for the teacher to innovate their teaching and learning. Technology-based approach be one that has been proven to provide a solution, by presenting a variety of tools that can bring students to the new experience in learning and improving teacher effectiveness in their activities in the school. As a company that concern in education technology tools, Microsoft considers that it is important to be a part education transformation. Some of digital tools, curriculum competencies through a variety of professional career development opportunities pres...

MSEC (Microsoft Educator Community) Campaign is an activity program that focuses on enhancing teachers' competencies through integrated technology in their classroom. By utilizing a variety of resources and materials contained on Microsoft Classroom portal, this activity has the objective of maximizing the usefulness of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in teaching and learning. Carrying the concept of training-to-trainer, from Microsoft Certified Expert to teachers, this workshop is expected to impact continuous. Besides, with the intention of teachers enrolled into this activity to become influencers are able to provide examples and understanding of the material learned to ...