Founders of Vitameter, a startup from the University of Waterloo, with one of four grand prizes from the Velocity Fund Finals. (Photo credit: Matt Rae/Matt Rae Media)
The event starts with the Velocity Fund Finals $5K, where University of Waterloo students of any discipline who qualified at one of the $5K Qualifiers will present their ideas for a chance to win.
In the afternoon, 10 software, hardware and life sciences startups will compete for the chance to win one of four prizes of $25,000 plus workspace at either the Velocity Garage or Velocity Foundry. One hardware company could also win an extra $10,000.
The judges for the Winter 2015 Velocity Fund Finals are:
It may use the most simple of technology, but a new water filtration system is transforming thousands of lives in the Dominican Republic. Designed by Master of Public Health student, Timothy Muttoo, in partnership with the non-profit organization FilterPure, the new filters use locally sourced clay, saw dust and particles of silver to remove 99.99 per cent of all water contaminants in households without access to safe water.
Andrew Andrade was halfway around the world when the mechatronics engineering student discovered he had not only won Waterloo Engineering’s top co-op student award, but the national award as well.
The American Cancer Society has given a researcher from the University of Waterloo the award considered the top in the world for tobacco control.
Geoffrey Fong, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the School of Public Health and Health Systems at Waterloo, has received one of the American Cancer Society’s Luther R. Terry Awards for Outstanding Research Contribution.
Media and the public are invited to check out what could be the next great Canadian company.
Senior-year students in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo will showcase projects ranging from a hockey bag that dries itself, a diabetic foot monitor to a low-cost prosthetic hand, as part of the annual Capstone Design symposia, which starts Friday.
Eric Migicovsky is the king of Kickstarter. For the second time in three years his brainchild, the Pebble smartwatch, reigned supreme on Kickstarter, the crowd-funding phenomenon. In just 49 minutes, the campaign raised over $1 million. Two days later, 47,000 people had backed the Pebble campaign to the tune of $10 million.
A Nobel laureate whose most recent book is being lauded as the best business book of the year is giving a public lecture about grassroots innovation at the University of Waterloo.
Edmund S. Phelps, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2006, will speak on Thursday, March 5 at the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum Nano Centre.
Pebble is at it again.
The smartwatch company founded by Waterloo engineering grad Eric Migicovsky has set a new record for a Kickstarter campaign with the launch of its latest smartwatch, the Pebble Time.