Challenge Question How can members of a Toronto community be encouraged to foster community interconnectedness and well-being by saving their seeds from home-grown food in a sustainable, environmentally-friendly way? Partner: Team Knitters Project Summary Help residents of a Toronto community feed themselves and others through establishing a seed-sharing ecosystem. A Seed Library is a depository […]
Challenge Question For a community with a large farming-based property tax space, how can it reimagine its income sources to provide its residents with the best level of service? Partner: Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville Project Summary It is a priority for municipalities to provide its residents with the best level of service. To provide the best […]
Challenge Question How can we offer tangible solutions to providing equitable access to education for all? Partner: Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) Project Summary The right to education is often the key that unlocks other rights - including the freedom of expression, the freedom of religion, and democratic, civil, political and legal rights. In Canada, […]
Challenge Question What can we understand differently about software through analysis of the code and the developer's comments in the code? Partner: Project Summary Research teams across Google and Alphabet are exploring new ways that machine learning can assist software developers and hope to rally more members of the developer community to help explore this […]
Partnership with the Stem Cell Engineering Lab Project Summary Drug testing requires an incredibly high number of repeated tests, with more than nine million trials being typical in the average screening process. Our project aims to automate a portion of this process by minimizing the amount of time the lab technician spends handling plates of […]
Project Summary The Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways aims to redevelop a series of three intersections along Highway 11 to support construction vehicles during maintenance while reducing the number of collisions. Our team computed new embankment and drainage designs. These designs were used to create the new flexible pavement design. A 9-m wide embankment with a […]
Partnership with YuRide Project Summary YuRide is a Ride-Sharing service proudly founded by YorkU Alumni striving to tackle the public transportation issues faced by university goers. For our project, Team F has worked many hours to develop a plan and prototypes for the company to integrate existing transportation services on campus. Working alongside the C4 […]
Challenge Question How can we help better simulate the signal environments that renewable energy systems work in, to help design them to be less susceptible to failure or to working in unintended ways? Partner: KPM Power Inc Project Summary Noise from radio frequencies can have a negative effect on the operation of renewable energy storage […]
Challenge Question How might we find evidence of extra-terrestrial life from examining signals from deep space? Partner: TBD Project Summary Does alien life exist? Would you like to be part of a team of researchers to help answer the question? Breakthrough Listen is the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations […]
Challenge Question How can we disseminate hydrological risk mapping of 22 watersheds to communities and local government in Chile? Partner: Surnorte Inc. Project Summary Chile is a beautiful country where extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, have led to disasters. Recent events include the central and southern […]