Zahra Zahirah Abidin of IPB, was Elected as Miss Inspiring 2017
Zahra Zahirah Abidin, the student of the Business School of Bogor Agricultural University (SB IPB) successfully won Miss Inspiring 2017 competition, which was organized by one of the major Muslim cosmetics companies in Indonesia. Students of the fifth semester who is familiarly called Zahra managed to become the 2nd winner for the competition.
The selection process for Miss Inspiring 2017 competition was held in last mid-October. Of the many contestants who participated in the competition, Zahra successfully passed the interview step and was elected to be the 30 top contestants, finally she was elected to be the second winner of the competition.
"At first I did not expect or dream to win the second winner, because during the selection process for the best fifteen contestants, my name was called at the end of the process", said Zahra.
Miss Inspiring 2017 is an arena of self-development through the competition. In this special competition each participant is expected to inspire many people with their respective roles. Each participant received various training courses to be skilful Muslim woman.
At the stage of interest and demonstrating their talent, each contestants was required to show each talent according to their interests. Female student who born in 1997 demonstrated her action her ability on public speaking. She showed her talent as a master of ceremony for formal and casual events.
"At the beginning I lacked confidence and wondered if being an MC is really my talent? The talent show is an event where participants perform talents of singing, dancing, lip-synching, acting, design, playing an instrument, fashion shows, or other. But maybe as I have performed different talent than the others, the juries assessed me differently, they gave more score for me. It has arouse my self-confidence," Zahra recalled.
On the intelligence tests, Zahra felt greatly facilitated in the final selection, because all the questions about self-development and proposed insights can be answered calmly and steadily. Organizational experience on campus was a provision for her to answer the questions asked by the Juries.
"At the final stage I just realized, public speaking is a talent before it becomes a skill. A talent is a latent ability, something that is dormant inside me. When you work at it, it becomes a skill. By doing public speaking we are increasing our skill at communicating with others, making us more confident around people automatically, and it also increases our skill at perceiving people’s reactions to our message. Public speaking enable us to be successful in getting people to want goodness, and motivate other people to follow your lead to continue doing what they have done in the past and hope for the best", expressed the student who needs to run the culinary business.
In addition being Miss Inspiring 2017, Zahra, the student from Bogor turned out to be active as an Ambassador of the Institute of Bogor Agricultural University batch 3. In addition, this beautiful girl is also active as secretary of one division at Student Executive Board (BEM) in her Faculty. Moreover, she has been active as MC at various events in the campus. After successfully winning the 2nd winner in the competition, Zahra wanted to be inspiring people through the programs planned by the Organizing Committee of the competition. (Wied)
