Thursday, November 6, 2014
The fourth-year design project group and start-up company Suncayr has been awarded the international runners-up prize in the James Dyson award competition. Their product is a color changing marker pen, full of UV responsive ink, that the user draws on their skin. When UV light hits the ink, it changes color – letting the user know that they need to reapply their sunscreen. They are the highest achieving Canadian entrant in history of this competition.
Suncayr was co-founded by five Nanotechnology engineering students: Rachel Pauler, Derek Jouppi, Andrew Martinko, Hayden Soboleski, and Chad Sweeting. Prof. N.M. Abukhdeir is the faculty consultant for their FYDP.