In order to improve the quality of science teaching and science teaching aids utilization in Indonesia, Pudak Scientific proudly organized a workshop for Junior High School Teachers in Bangkalan, which was held at the Auditorium of Universitas Trunojoyo, Jl. Raya Telang PO. Box 02 Kamal, Bangkalan, on Saturday, February 8, 2014.

This workshop was a collaboration of Pudak Scientific and UPT Laboratorium Dasar Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. Many teachers were interested in attending the workshop, which theme was "Workshop of Science Learning Process for Junior High School Teachers", because this kind of training was the first to be held in Madura. This workshop attended by 107 participants who are the Junior High School Science Teachers from Bangkalan and the surrounding areas.

In the first session of this event, the main speaker, Prof. Dr. Agoes Soegianto, DEA from Department of Biology, Universitas Airlangga - Surabaya presented a material about the Implementation of Phenomenon Based Science Learning Process. The next material was the science learning methodology that was presented by Drs. Sulaiman, M.Pd - Science Education Lecturer of Universitas Trunojoyo - Madura.
 
The Team of Pudak Scientific - Bandung filled the second session by explaining the importance of teaching aids to support the science learning process in schools. According to Dicky Zulfikridin - as the instructor of Pudak Scientific - Bandung, - there is a fact that 80% of teaching equipments damaged due to storage, not usage.

Besides the issue of teaching aids damages, the Curriculum 2013 emphasizes more on the students’ skills, that include the proficiency in making creative and innovative teaching aids and able to use teaching aids as the instructional media in the laboratory.

These are the reasons that encourage Pudak Scientific to participate in workshops organized in Indonesia’s regional area, providing trainings for teachers to be able to optimize the usage of the existing teaching aids equipments. Proper usage of educational aids will help students in absorbing materials taught, both in the classroom and in the laboratory.

Pudak Scientific Team presented the science lab basic material, such as:

• The basic technique of Chemical
• Usage optimization of microscope and its maintenance
• Basic measurement of Mechanic and Electricity
• Transformer test and Ohm's law experiments
• Inquiry method on water pump experiment

In this session, the participants - who were very enthusiastic - did parallel lab works in 3 hours, guided by Pudak Scientific team. According to one of the participants, this kind of workshop, which was the first to be held in Bangkalan, need to be organized again, especially for laboratory management topic.

On this occasion, Pudak Scientific was also socializing the movement of Pudak Cinta Guru (Pudak Loves Teachers) - as a real movement in accordance with the Pudak Scientific commitment that carries the mission of to educate Indonesia’s teachers in optimizing the teaching aids usage in schools. As the symbol of this movement, all workshop participants received Pudak Cinta Guru pins (brooch).