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Students are building in Waterloo with ambition and energy
University of Waterloo students put the city on the map last week with two stand-out events, Waterloo Tech Week and Hack the North. Both showcased the dynamic Waterloo tech ecosystem and its entrepreneurial energy, bringing together business founders, talent spotters, students, startups, venture capitalists and hackers from around the world.
Now in its 13th year, Hack the North, Canada’s largest student-led hackathon, welcomed more than 1,000 hackers who spent 36 straight hours building, collaborating and connecting with peers and industry. Building on the success and spirit of Hack the North, the student organizing team launched Waterloo Tech Week in 2025, creating an event that is open to anyone interested in connecting with the startup community in the Waterloo Region.
How a Waterloo Arts student is building better tools for research
A psychology study that once took five or six weeks to build can now be created in less than an hour. Jacob Oliveira, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, developed the new tool by aiming to solve his own research challenge. Now his solution has grown into a venture shaped in part by Waterloo’s culture of experimentation and entrepreneurship.
“I came here to study people, not to build software,” he says. “But that’s what the research kept demanding of me, until I decided to fix that.”
Q and A with the Experts: What is “Claudish”?
AI coding agents use a distinctive style of English. The terms exist in software engineering and other technical areas, but how frequently Claude uses them, the way it combines them and the compressed style it uses are distinctive. Professor Yuntian Deng, from the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo created a translator to help readers better understand Claude’s information-dense outputs. Professor Deng answers some questions about Claudish and his new translator, which has received over a million views on X.