Two groups of FKE students from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia joined “The Malaya Makerthon 2018” at Universiti Malaya from 5th April to 7th April of 2018. One of those groups, namely “The Half-Baked Ice Cubes”, consisting of 3 Mechatronics Engineering students from FKE successfully managed to achieve the 1st Runner-Up position in the competition. The Team members are Azwad Abid, Labib Sharrar and Muhammad Aiman Bin Adam Lim. They were awarded a prize money of RM1500 and will get the opportunity to go straight into ASEAN Makerthon 2018, organized by Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Cyberjaya.