In the midst of the Even Semester Summative Assessment (PSTS) period of the 2022-2023 academic year, three students from class X MIPA Plus Gembala Baik who are members of the Youth Scientific Work (KIR) extracurricular activity won a silver medal at the final event of the Global Competition for Life Science (3rd GloCoLiS) 2023 Online Competition which took place on April 3-5, 2023.

GB High School KIR members who performed at the GloCoLiS event were a junior team with Jennifer Lie as team leader, Valeria Nadine and Wirya Adhikara as team members, and Winny Kurniawan, S.Si., M.Si as supervisor.

GloCoLis 2023 is the third year of competition organized by Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences (i3L) Jakarta in collaboration with Indonesian Young Scientist Association (IYSA) and Malaysia Innovation, Invention and Creativity Association (MIICA) followed by 319 finalists from 15 countries, such as Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Canada, Turkey, South Korea, Poland, Serbia, Timor Leste, Macedonia, United Stated of America (USA), India, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia.

In total there were 727 projects from 16 countries that participated in the preliminary round which were divided into 6 category fields, namely bioinformatics, biomedicine, food technology, biotechnology, food science and nutrition, and pharmacy. "KIR SMA GB takes the field of food science and nutrition," said Winny, who is also one of the Chemistry and KTI teachers at SMA GB.

Contacted on the sidelines of the PSTS evenings, the three students shared their innovations and feelings about participating in GloCoLis 2023. "We offer an innovation in making ice cream, one of the ingredients of which is purple sweet potato as a functional food," said Jennifer, daughter of Lie Tjiu Thie and Lo Po Cu.

"We upgrade ice cream as a healthier food because it contains antioxidants," explained Nadine, the daughter of Sudijono Tendijono and The Heriyanti.Wirya Adhikara, the son of Heryanto Tan and Sinju Utavi, shared his nervous feelings at the awarding ceremony last Wednesday, April 5.

Contacted on the sidelines of the PSTS evenings, the three students shared their innovations and feelings about participating in GloCoLis 2023. "We offer an innovation in making ice cream, one of the ingredients of which is purple sweet potato as a functional food," said Jennifer, daughter of Lie Tjiu Thie and Lo Po Cu.

Separately, Marsianus Ami, S.Pd., in the midst of monitoring the PPDB Wave 2 registration activities and the implementation of the 2023 National Science Olympiad (OSN) city level selection, expressed his gratitude and thanks to all those who have contributed to Glocolis' achievements.

"Thanks to the blessing of the YPGB board pastor, the motivation of the supervisor Mrs. Dra. Hj Isnawati M.Si, the encouragement of the students' parents, the permission and support of the teachers, and the coaching of Mr. Winny," said the husband of Elisabeth Sedah. (ser/pms)