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A University of Waterloo startup developing a marker that lets you know when you need to reapply sunscreen is the runner-up in a prestigious international design competition.

Suncayr, a company formed by nanotechnology engineering students in Waterloo’s Velocity program was announced as an international runner up in James Dyson Awards on Thursday. The James Dyson Award, founded by the British industrial designer and inventor of the Dyson bagless vacuum, runs in 18 countries.

A team of third-year nanotechnology engineering students won two $1,000 awards at the Velocity Fund Finals ​(VFF) on Thursday, July 24, 2014.  Out of 10 competing companies, Suncayr, won two of the awards: Most Innovative and People’s Choice.  The Suncayr technology is a UV-responsive marker that’s applied before sunscreen and changes colour once your sunscreen is no longer protecting you. 

For the first time, the Nanotechnology Engineering Undergraduate program was lucky enough to have two generous sponsors for our 2014 Capstone Design Project Symposium.

Thank you to our design symposium poster award sponsor, Intlvac (www.intlvac.ca), for sponsoring team Sierra for their winning poster.

The Norman Esch Capstone Award is open to student teams from all departments within the Faculty of Engineering.  Just being chosen as one of the 15 finalists is a big accomplishment and the Nanotechnology Engineering program had three teams represented, teams Sierra, PASCAL and Greyscale.

A big congratulations to our winning team of Greyscale that captured one of six $10,000 awards at the pitch event held on Friday, April 4^th, 2014. 

On Friday, March 21, 2014, the fifth annual Nanotechnology Engineering Fourth Year Design Symposium was held.  This event showcases design projects from the Nanotechnology Engineering program senior class which they work on over the course of three terms.  Twenty-one projects in the theme areas of Nano Fluidics and Biotechnology, Nano Electronics and Photonics and Nano Functional Materials were presented by 84 students throughout the day.

The poster presentation competition rewarded four teams:

1^st Prize:  Alison Lee, Chelsea Marr, Krishna Iyer

The University of Waterloo Department of Communications and Public Affairs has written a feature article about the startup company Lumotune created by three recent Waterloo Nanotechnology Engineering graduates. Their goal is to create large display screens with nanomaterials. The full article can be read at this link on the Waterloo News website.

On Friday, March 22, 2013, the fourth annual Nanotechnology Engineering Fourth Year Design Symposium was held. This event showcases design projects from the nanotechnology engineering program senior class.  Twenty-one projects in the theme areas of Nano-Fluidics and Biotechnology, Nano-Electronics and Photonics and Nano Functional materials were presented by 81 students throughout the day.

The poster presentation competition rewarded three teams: 

A team of fourth-year nanotechnology engineering students took top prize in the VeloCity Venture Fund & Demo Day 2013 competition on Tuesday, March 16.