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To the Class of 2020

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Stratford School Professor Lennart Nacke Receives $30k Mitacs Accelerate Grant

Lennart Nacke, Associate Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and Director of the HCI Games Group at the Games Institute, has recently been awarded a $30k grant from Mitacs in partnership with TD Bank.

More than 135 registrants from Waterloo's main campus, the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and other institutions, descended upon the Stratford School Saturday morning to participate in StoryCamp, a 15-hour design competition on multimodal storytelling.

Global Business and Digital Arts student Victoria Vandenberg achieved 2nd place at the annual Communitech Code/Design to Win challenge held in Kitchener this past weekend.

Vandenberg and 5 other students from the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business were among the top 25 finalists selected from 258 designers that participated in the preliminary on-campus challenges.

The five university students behind a project called Recreate didn't expect to win a digital arts project showcase.

"Absolutely not," said Pedja Ristic, who spoke on behalf of his group.

Design students at the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus had the chance to hear from their colleagues who had graduated and gone on to work in the field on Saturday.

Working with the best is the fastest way to get better.

That's a lesson that 20-year-old digital artist Katrina Schouten understands well.

How can technology help stressed parents quickly find their lost child in a crowded park?

Emerging tech talents from the University of Waterloo collected all $12,000 in prizes from the expanded Code/Design to Win competition at Communitech on Saturday.

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