Entrepreneurship

A new study from the University of Waterloo highlights a low level of awareness among youth around the proper precautions they need to take when it comes to handling food.

The study measured 32 different food-handling behaviours among Ontario high school students in grades 10 to 12. It found that fewer than 50 per cent of the recommended practices were followed by students, including basic hand hygiene and procedures to prevent cross-contamination.

Ten years ago, Velocity began as a simple experiment to bring students interested in entrepreneurship together.  Since then, it has helped shape the creation of hundreds of companies that would play a major role in Waterloo region’s startup ecosystem and beyond.

Today, Velocity has worked with more than 300 startups, employing 2,250+ people and raising more than $750 million in funding to develop exciting technologies.

More than two years after graduating, David Au-Yeung (BASc '04), Matthew Cheung (BASc '04), David Meyers (BASc '04) and Wehuns Tan (BASc '04) were all putting their engineering degrees to good use at good jobs in the working world.

But that wasn’t what they really wanted.

Close friends since their first year of Waterloo’s computer engineering program, the foursome from the Toronto area still had their sights set on becoming entrepreneurs.

It’s official!  Monday, October 29, 2018 is the Grand Opening of Engineering 7.

Attached to both E5 and E6, this seven-storey, 242,000-square-foot building will be a new vibrant home for students, faculty, research facilities and staff.

As a student of the inaugural Waterloo management engineering class, Kynan Gallagher (BASc '12) credits the program’s curriculum, his co-op work experience and classroom connections for landing the customer success lead position at a Kitchener educational platform company in 2014.

It’s a groundbreaking international conference providing industry leaders the chance to discuss issues at the centre of society and technology.  True North focused on how to re-imagine and reaffirm tech as a force for good in the world.

Attracting more than 2,000 of the most engaged leaders and influencers from the region and around the world, the three-day event was hosted across the region, in downtown Kitchener and at the new event space at Lot 42.

To build technology that is good for society, ethical discussions have to happen at the research and development stage – not at the end of a project, says a Waterloo professor.

Marcel O’Gorman, a professor in Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts, told attendees at the True North Waterloo conference that this region has an opportunity to create an ethos and a culture that supports innovation that improves lives.

Technology is inevitable, but what does it mean to be human in a tech-driven world?

That’s the question True North will answer, a three-day conversation (May 29 – 31) focused on the intersection of humans and technology. 

Over 700 students from across the globe participated in this year’s Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Student Design Awards, the world’s longest running student design competition. Now in its 94^th year, the awards encourage students to respond to complex design challenges in the name of social good.