Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Crouton Labs, a team made up of third-year mechatronics engineering students Drew Gross, Akash Vaswani and Jake Nielsen and computer science student Christophe Biocca, took first place in the Brainstem Build-a-thon. The competition was held as part of the June 25-27 BrainSTEM "unconference" at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. The Build-a-thon included 10 teams of university and college students that worked for 48 hours to create a digital media product. Crouton Labs, a startup from the VeloCity incubator, won for its product called Ropuzzle, an educational puzzle game that teaches robotics to high school students, assembling and programming it to achieve objectives. [DB article]