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Yamila Franco and Paige Whitehead teamed up to form Nyoka Design Labs, a company focusing on using non-toxic biodegradable materials. Photo credit: Nik West.
The flash of inspiration that led UVic grads Yamila Franco (BSc ’18, Cert ’18) and Paige Whitehead (BSc ’19) to jump into the business of bioluminescence wasn’t so much a lightbulb moment but a glow stick one. While enjoying the Shambhala Music Festival, Whitehead noticed thousands of the tiny light wands, popular at such events, sapped of all their chakra-aligning power, discarded like day-old noodles and headed to a landfill in the afterglow of the annual electronic music love-in.