The PKM 2023 Socialization and Brainstorming event took place on Wednesday, 18 January 2023 at 09.00-11.30 a.m. The event began with a presentation of material on the PKM important points and exploration of ideas from the lecturer who filled the materials, Ms. Lisna Hidayati, S.Sc, M.Biotech. The event continued with a brainstorming session guided by silver medalist at the PKM-RE PIMNAS 35 presentation, Eri Dwi Suyanti as the MC with Mandrea Nora as gold medalist in the poster category and silver medalist in the PKM-K & PKM-PM PIMNAS 35 presentation category and Alleluia Maria as the silver medalist in the PKM-PM PIMNAS 35 presentation category. The brainstorming session from the resource person was closed with a question and answer session from the audience to all the resource persons regarding the material that had been presented as well as other questions regarding the 2023 PKM event.
The 2023 PKM Socialization and Brainstorming event was held with the aim of providing an overview, inspiration, and sharing experiences to participants, hence they are motivated to take part in 2023 PKM. The event was held in 2 forms, a socialization or presentation session and a brainstorming session or talk show where participants were involved in interactive discussions. This event was attended by approximately 74 students of the Faculty of Biology, Gadjah Mada University. The presentation session discussed a brief introductory description of the PKM, and also a presentation on the activities and flow of the program itself, lastly providing information related to the 2023 PKM. Meanwhile, the brainstorming session discussed briefly about experiences from team formation and brainstorming ideas that could be used in PKM events, dynamics during proposal preparation, PKP2, and narrative review writing, as well as experience at PIMNAS competition.