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Engineering Graduate Society

ideathon

what it's all about

The ideathon competition was created in 2021. The goal of this competition is to provide an opportunity for engineering graduate students from across Canada to utilize their problem solving and communication skills to help solve a problem that can have a massive impact on our society. Solutions will focus on scalability, economic feasibility, and environmental impacts of their solution.

Why Participate?

  • Promote students to think outside the box, and outside of their graduate research
  • Provide opportunities for students to network with engineering professionals and employers
  • Virtual event to foster collaboration between engineering graduate students across several Canadian universities
  • Compete for $7,000 in prizes

Prizes

Student teams are competing for several prizes! In addition to the prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, we will have several smaller goodies for teams during the competition.

Networking

We are welcoming students from all across Canada! Teams will be comprised of students across Canada, but the networking doesn’t end there! You will have an opportunity to meet even more students during our workshop and event platform throughout the event.

ideathon 2022

ideathon 2022 Challenge

Global supply chains are experiencing tremendous strain in every aspect of their operations, from the point of manufacturing to the final consumer, which creates unique problems that require unique solutions. Your challenge is to create an innovative solution to address the problem(s) facing global supply chains and is aligned with all three of the sustainability pillars.

Student Participants

Ideathon 2022 sponsored by:

ideathon 2021

ideathon 2021 Challenge

Great disruption can lead to great change. This pandemic represents a pivotal moment in history, and opens up the possibility to fundamentally change how we interact with each other and the world. What technologies or changes can help us in our current pandemic situation/what technologies can you imagine that will change or facilitate our post-pandemic future?

Student Participants

Ideathon 2021 sponsored by: