About the Regional Pitch Event
This exciting event celebrates everything participants have accomplished during the 4‑month 2026 Technovation Season. Additionally, the Waterloo Chapter Regional Pitch Event acted as the official quarterfinals for our Beginner & Junior Divisions. This means that the 4 grand prize-winning teams are moving on to the Technovation Global Challenge Semi-Finals. Their online submission will now go through another round of judging with all the other North American semi-finalists, with the top teams moving on to the finals.
Our Senior Division pitch competition was an unofficial celebration event. Which means that their submissions will be judge online for the official Technovation quarterfinals. The semi-finalist announcement for our Senior Division and teams who DID NOT participate in our Regional Pitch Event will be on May 26th, 2026.
The Finalists & Regional Winners for all divisions will be announced in July 2026.
Quick Links: Beginner Winners | Junior Winners | Senior Winners
Beginner Division Winners
Best Pitch: Code & Cutify <3
Allergenius by Aysima & Hana
Allergenius is an app designed to help you understand possible allergies quickly and easily. Are you experiencing unusual reactions and wondering why? It features The Genius, an AI tool that analyzes your recent activities and symptoms to suggest what your allergy might be. While helpful, it does not replace professional medical advice. The app also provides simple tips on what to avoid and suggests medications. Another feature we are developing, The Checker, lets you scan ingredient lists to identify hidden allergens and stay informed, cautious, and prepared whenever you need guidance and support in daily life.
Best User Design: Team Orbit
EcoPlay by Meera & Souzan
Our project is an interactive, goal-oriented game designed to encourage environmentally helpful behaviour through rewarding challenges. The game is structured into levels, beginning with simple tasks and gradually increasing in difficulty as users advance. While many people are aware of the things that hurt our planet, fewer take consistent steps to make a positive difference. EcoPlay was created to help this change. By offering clear, achievable, and eco-friendly goals, the game encourages people to help the environment in an accessible and motivating way.
Grand Prize: Input/Output
PLENTYOFFOOD by Vanya & Quynh Ly
PLENTYOFFOOD is a free food-providing app designed for those looking to donate or receive food. Functioning like Facebook Marketplace, you set up your profile as Donor or Client. The Donor provides food to the Client by dropping off the food at a Hot-n’-Cold box. The Client then goes to the nearest Hot n’ Cold box, and enters the code they were given into the padlock. Hot-n’-Cold boxes are a pair of boxes that you will find in every neighbourhood. For security purposes, there is a padlock on each box. Join PLENTYOFFOOD to combat hunger and food waste! Easy as pie!
Grand Prize: Dynamic Duo
WelcomeCare by Havya & Shanvi
Imagine starting a new life in Canada. You're scared, tired, and don’t know where to find proper healthcare. Every year, more than 380,000 permanent residents move to Canada, and about 1 in 5 do not speak English or French. Because of language barriers, many newcomers struggle to communicate with doctors. This makes it hard to explain symptoms or understand medical advice. It can also be difficult to find clinics or doctors who speak their language. Because of this, some newcomers may get misdiagnosed. That’s why we created WelcomeCare, an app that helps immigrants find doctors who speak their language!
Quick Links: Beginner Winners | Junior Winners | Senior Winners
Junior Division Winners
Best Pitch: Guide Light
HelloSight by Aahna & Hannah
With more than 2.2 billion people worldwide with vision difficulties, HelloSight aims to help those with vision impairments navigate everyday environments more independently. With features like text recognition, image recognition and voice-guided navigation (Destinations), our app uses voice controls and auditory instructions to make daily tasks easier to complete and provide more freedom in their lives.
Best User Design: CalmCoders
MoodMate by Advika & Sahaana
Our app called MoodMate, which is a mental health app that helps teens face their problems much easier. Its able to keep track on how your feeling throughout days, weeks, or longer. If your child is someone who could get moody, has mental health problems, or is emotional, our app could be just the perfect solution. MoodMate can also provide entertainment for you with music, games, and some tips to make you feel much better. Its a guide and will follow through.
Grand Prize: Stellar Squad
Community Care Loop by Kavira, Lydia, Madeline, & Zara
Community Care Loop is a privacy-first, community-based elder safety app for seniors living alone. A low-cost PIR motion sensor captures movement data and sends it to the app, without asking elders to manage technology. The app allows a Family Admin to set personalized monitoring windows based on the elder’s routine at home. If no motion is detected during an expected window, the app triggers a configured alert sequence to trusted volunteer neighbors and family members. By placing volunteer neighbors at the heart of the care circle, Community Care Loop creates a compassionate, and community-driven safety net for isolated older adults.
Grand Prize: Anaya and Noella
P.D. Pathways by Aanya & Noella
Parkinson's disease is a common progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects movement, causing tremors, stiffness, slowness (bradykinesia), and balance issues. Currently, there is no cure, only physiotherapy exercises that can alleviate symptoms. Over 10 million people struggle with Parkinson's. We built an app with machine learning-powered augmented reality games designed for Parkinson's patients. By gamifying physiotherapy exercises, Parkinson's patients will become more consistent. Adapting to the needs of Parkinson's patients, we built and trained our own neural network model to identify leg poses.
Quick Links: Beginner Winners | Junior Winners | Senior Winners
Senior Division Winners
Best Pitch: Team Spade
Speakly by Chetna & Lakshmi
Speakly is an AI-powered personal public speaking coach designed for teens looking to improve their speaking skills. With a click of a button, students can record their response to a given unique prompt and Speakly instantly scans the voice for filler words, tone, and pacing. It then provides a grade and personalized tips to improve for next time. With daily reminder notifications and contacts for real-time coaches, users will be able to track their daily progress building confidence and skills for the real the world. Every voice deserves to be heard.
Best User Design: JVS
Support Spot by Vira, Joan, & Sofia
SupportSpot is a shelter/resource finding app, focused on assisting the overlooked demographic of “hidden homeless” individuals (people on the verge of losing housing, but statistically aren’t represented as “homeless”.) Our app plans to combat this problem by targeting what other sources might miss, with features like: 1. Real time shelter availability/fullness updates; 2.Safe route and suggestions to shelters; 3.Locates food banks, free clinics, mental health services, legal aid spots, etc.; 4. A unique discreet mode, emergency location identifying feature, and user anonymity all to further ensure protection.
Grand Prize: Power Puck Girls
CareCompass by Allie & Victoria
After spending hours in unfamiliar emergency rooms and being redirected to other facilities, we saw how inefficient and stressful accessing care can be. Our project aims to simplify this process by helping users quickly determine where to go by providing nearby locations, wait times and services provided. Ultimately, it empowers users to make faster, more confident healthcare decisions when it matters most.
Community Care Loop is a privacy-first, community-based elder safety app for seniors living alone. A low-cost PIR motion sensor captures movement data and sends it to the app, without asking elders to manage technology. The app allows a Family Admin to set personalized monitoring windows based on the elder’s routine at home. If no motion is detected during an expected window, the app triggers a configured alert sequence to trusted volunteer neighbors and family members. By placing volunteer neighbors at the heart of the care circle, Community Care Loop creates a compassionate, and community-driven safety net for isolated older adults.