SIFE SHELL- A reflection

6th July, 3pm- Everyone was tired. Me too. Having our D-Day at SHELL building, we just came back from SHELL Project For A Better World. The result of the competition is not as what we expected. Based on the presentation and the QnA session from the other teams, we simply could say that the only competitiors is Uniten. That what goes wrong. From the orning, watching 7 teams of SIFEs in the Shell theaterate, i could say that that we SIFE UTP had a bright chance to win the competition. However, during the announcement of the winner, we apparently just won the consolation prizes. Shocked? Frustrated? Those things were circling around us when we heard the result. But we managed to be proud of ourselves as we did our best for presentation and become as honest as possible in our presentation.
May be it is too late to talk about this, but I already had a feeling that we won't be able to win the competition based on my observation during our presentation and the QnA session. One of the judges said, "I don't know what to ask." it was whether a doom sentence or our victory sign. it shows whether our project is good or bad.
In term of presentation, we believes, we had given our best compared to certain universities which just reluctantly entered this competition without sufficient preparation. i do believe that they realize that they should do better in term of presentation if they really want to win in this similar competition next year.
Based on our reflection, we think that the thing that drove us away from our presentation is the content of our project. May be TiEC is not suitable to be bring to SHELL competition. we could see that those who win the top three place produced products that can save the environment. Well, we just create environmental awareness among future enterpreneurs. Who cares, huh? Although we got lots of compliments form our SIFERs friends there, we did not have our luck then.
But, this will not put us down. Insya-Allah, we can win in the national Level.

p/s: I would like to express my gratitude to Miss Debbie for helping me duirng my presentation. thank you so much.
:)