On the 17th of November 2018, a Paintball match was held at Cyberjaya Paintball Park, Cyberjaya. The purpose of the event was to encourage participation from different student branches for IEEE related events and to provide a networking space for IEEE members to share ideas on future collaboration opportunities and develop solutions to overcome problems faced by each particular student branch. A total of 16 participants for this event consists of IEEE members from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) and University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC).
The event began at 10AM with a short introduction to the purpose of the event and ice breaking session to be acquainted with IEEE members from other universities. The paintball session lasted for 2 hours, comprising of 2 modes of gameplay: Last Man Standing and Zombie, in 2 types of fields which are Speedball and Forest-Bunker field. Safety precautions were made by the marshals to ensure the safety of the players. The main protective equipments are the vest and face mask. Markers are filled with pellets that can be shot at other players.
After the paintball session, a networking and brainstorming session was held. Individual student branches had the opportunity to promote their own programs as well as to seek out for collaborative oppurtunies with other student branches to organise high-impact events. The types of programs that were discussed during the session were either technical, social or humanitarian in nature. Most student branches are in the process of organising boot camps that aim to educate undergraduate students with specific engineering skills such as communication, programming and semiconductor design. Other student branches were planning competitions to garner interest of students to develop solutions for current local issues such as “Methods to overcome Palm Oil Waste Products”. The networking and brainstorming session ended at 1PM which also marks the end of the event. The event was successful in fulfilling its objective of providing oppurtunies for collaboration and cooperation between IEEE student branches in Malaysia.
Participants gathered at Cyberjaya Paintball Park
Speedball Field
Networking and Brainstorming Session
IEEE members from IEEESB UPM, UNITEN, UTAR and UNMC