Posts Categorized: Entrepreneurship
While some of us are using the new power of 3D printers to make smartphone cases and chocolate figurines, two engineering students from the University of Toronto are using them to print functional human skin. On September 18, Arianna McAllister (IBBME…
Aiming for more than $42,000 in prizes, young U of T entrepreneurs pitching to investors packed their presentations with 3D animations, live classical guitar serenades, product giveaways hidden under audience chairs – and one very efficient mop bucket. Welcome to…
According to Shums Kassam (EngSci 1T5), a U of T Engineering degree equips students with many valuable things, but a solid fashion sense isn’t necessarily one of them. Two things, among others, that Kassam claims he has gained from his engineering…
For anyone who makes anything – from R2D2 robots to DIY skateboards to 3D-printed chocolate sculptures and beyond – participating in the Maker Faire means entering into a worldwide family-friendly carnival of wondrous, inventive physical stuff. Launched as a showcase of cool inventions…
Were you a little chilly last winter? So were Alex Huang (ElecE 1T3+PEY) and Jason Yakimovich (CompE 1T3+PEY). Then fourth-year students slogging through bitter drifts to class, the two were so unimpressed by the “polar vortex” that they decided to…
They’re building up, shipping out and being celebrated as the future of innovation. The University of Toronto is a hub for many biotech and health innovators looking to develop their research and business acumen through programs, courses, accelerators and more.…
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