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This community service activity aims to strengthen students’ soft skills and hard skills through public speaking and computer network cabling training at SMA Negeri 1 Sorong City. The activity's background is rooted in the state of computer learning, which still focuses on the introduction of software and hardware, while communication skills and computer network practices have not been fully developed. The method for implementing the activity uses an experiential learning approach, comprising the planning, socialization, training, and evaluation stages. Soft skills training is focused on improving public speaking skills through public speaking practice, while hard skills training is carried out through direct practice of computer network cabling using UTP cables and supporting devices. The results of the activity show an increase in students’ communication skills and self-confidence, as well as an increase in students' understanding and technical skills in computer network cabling. This activity provides an applicable learning experience and strengthens the synergy between universities and high schools in developing student

The Public Speaking and Computer Network Cabling Training Activity at SMP YPK Sele Be Solu aims to improve students' competence in communication and technical skills in computer networking. The activity was carried out using an experiential learning approach with stages of observation, socialisation, hands-on training, and evaluation. The results of the activities show an increase in students' confidence in public speaking and basic technical skills in network cabling, including LAN cable installation, RJ-45 connectors, and cable testing. Intensive mentoring during the training helped students overcome difficulties and optimise their understanding. This activity demonstrates that combining soft skills and hard skills training through direct experience can improve students' overall competence, motivate learning, and prepare students to face academic and digital challenges in the future. In addition, this activity also strengthened cooperation between schools and universities in supporting the improvement of skills-based education quality. The enthusiasm of students during the training showed that practice-based learning methods are very effective at the junior high school level. With this activity, students have a strong foundation to develop their interests and potential in the fields of communication, information technology, and readiness to face the rapidly developing digital world.

Speaking skills are the most important part of learning a foreign or second language. In addition, the success of language learning is measured by the demonstrated ability to converse in the target language. Skills speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning which includes generating, receive, process and use both verbal and non-verbal components. The weaknesses of the students of SMK PP Negeri Kutacane in learning English so far, especially in speaking English skills are very weak and of course this weakness is caused by something complex, without ignoring various factors, the author feels the need to conduct research with the title above so that it can be known whether students' interest in learning increase or not when using the experiential method. The population sampled was class XI SMK PP Negeri Kutacane. In this study, the researchers used an Experiential Learning method to determine the significant effect of the application of the experiential learning method on students' speaking skills, stating that quantitative research uses numbers, starting from data collection, interpretation of data, and the appearance of data results. Based on the calculation above, the research found that t stat > t critical, or 13,74 > 1,69 so that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Therefore, there is an effect of using the experiential learning method on the speaking skills of class XI students of the SMK PP Negeri Kutacane Aceh Tenggara academic year 2022/2023. The conclusions obtained from the results of this study are as follows: there is an effect of using the experiential learning method on the speaking skills of class XI students of SMK PP Negeri Kutacane Aceh Tenggara academic year 2022/2023.