Gibran arrived at the school wearing a light blue shirt and was welcomed by West Java Deputy Governor Erwan Setiawan and Bandung Mayor Muhammad Farhan.
On the occasion, the vice president directly observed IoTbased learning offered to students across the seventh through ninth grades. He toured several classrooms to converse with pupils, discussing with them the use of technological innovations in their studies.
Gibran also used the visit to witness how the school organizes an esports extracurricular program. After spending about 30 minutes there, he left for Bandung District, where he plans to review schools and pesantren, or Islamic boarding schools.
Mayor Farhan voiced approval of the school’s learning approach, emphasizing the importance of extending the scope of scientific and technological developments to junior high school students.
"If pupils are already able to create many innovations today, their works could be useful in the future. This approach can be applied to a concept aimed at promoting the smart city initiative in Bandung," he said.
Meanwhile, Didit Wahyu Triono, an informatics engineering teacher at Santo Yusup School, noted that IoTbased learning had been in place for the last two years.
He explained that the learning model starts with subjects introducing seventhgrade students to the basic logic of programming through simple game development. Meanwhile, eighthgrade students are guided to design games with greater complexity.
"Once they are in the ninth grade, pupils are placed into group projects to create innovations that can be applied in everyday life," Triono added, noting that his students have produced sensorpowered trash bins, voicecommand lights, and prototypes of automated railway crossing bars.
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