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uXperience | Think Privacy Online Design Jam logo and sponsors
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Students Challenged to Create Privacy Conscious Solutions for Connectivity in Online Design Jam

73 students created innovative solutions to a privacy design challenge at uXperience | Think Privacy – the annual fall design camp hosted by the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business – competing for more than $7,400 in prizes. Students were challenged to design a solution inspired by the increased need for virtual connection brought on by COVID-19.  

Founder OpenUnit in front of garage
Monday, September 21, 2020

GBDA alumni entrepreneur turns heads at Y Combinator Demo Day

When investors logged in to Y Combinator’s virtual summer 2020 Demo Day, they saw Waterloo entrepreneurship in action. OpenUnit, a company founded by Stratford School alumni, took part in the event, among three other Waterloo/Velocity startups. Y Combinator brought together a class of 198 founders from 26 different countries.

Julia Sprague confrence standing beside project summary
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

ALOHA From New York, GBDA Student Helps Advance Conversational AI Systems

ALOHA From New York, GBDA Student Helps Advance Conversational AI Systems

Global Business and Digital Arts student Julia Sprague, alongside her Computation Health and Informatics Lab (CHIL) team, recently celebrated the publication of their paper, “ALOHA: Artificial Learning of Human Attributes for Dialogue Agents.” Led by Professor Jesse Hoey, the team’s paper was published in Google Scholar and accepted to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in New York, where the group presented their findings in February.
Team smiling and lauging as they play their newly created game.
Monday, November 18, 2019

StoryCamp welcomed over 100 students to participate in multimodal story design competition.

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.

Victoria working on her solution
Thursday, January 24, 2019

GBDA Student Victoria Vandenberg Places 2nd in National Competition

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.

Members of the RECREATE project team
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

RECREATE project wins digital arts showcase at University of Waterloo Stratford campus

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.

A panel of four graduates (and one current student) talk about what life is like in the working world of design.
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Graduates return with career advice

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.