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When Math alumni Adarsh Mehta (BMath ’98) and Jeff Jenner (BMath ’84) moved to a new property in the spring of 2025, they treated the parched lawn surrounding their home as a blank canvas. In its place, they envisioned an ambitious ecological project: not simply a garden, but a thriving ecosystem teeming with plants that would support wildlife, feed their family and bloom beautifully through the seasons.

Two Waterloo Region high school student teams are celebrating landmark achievements in the 2026 Technovation Girls competition. For the first time in the Waterloo chapter’s history, a team has advanced to the Technovation Girls World Summit, while another team has been recognized as the second-ranked intermediate-level team in North America.

A busy fall schedule of events has given our community plenty of opportunities to discuss the changes we're seeing in mathematics and across society as a result of AI. 

From sustainable food forests to board games, here is a look at what our alumni and supporters are building next.

Bringing back a feature from the old Math Ties with the return of A "Different Angle" that will give alumni a chance to solve math problems.

How Waterloo and the New Oxford English Dictionary Project helped create the modern search engine