Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Innovation Challenge

Canadian Nuclear Labs Innovation Challenge

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The 2025 Canadian Nuclear Labs Innovation Challenge will take place on Oct. 3-5, 2025. The event schedule is:

Friday, Oct. 3 Saturday, Oct 4 Sunday, Oct 5

Introduction to the
problem space

5pm,
E7-1427

Main event
 

9am-5pm,
E7-1427

Main event
 

9am-5pm,
E7-1427

This multi-disciplinary event is open to students from the Faculties of Science and Engineering, in any year of study. Students from science and engineering will collaborate to solve pressing real-world problems from the nuclear industry.

The Canadian Nuclear Labs Innovation Challenge is a 2-day event, jointly held by the Engineering Ideas Clinic and Canadian Nuclear Labs (CNL), and is a great opportunity for students to work on real problems from the nuclear sector while improving their technical and professional skills.  With a mix of software and hardware available, all students will be hands-on developing and testing their solutions.

Experts from CNL will be on hand to introduce a real problem they face in their nuclear industry before students are let loose to solve the problem over the course of the next 2 days. CNL will return at the end of the weekend to judge student designs and give feedback on how they could be improved.

Prior programming knowledge is helpful, but not required; tutorials will be provided to help students learn the necessary technical skills to succeed. This event is welcoming to all, and is designed so that all students have a fun, and meaningful learning experience.