Winners have been announced for the University of New England's 2020-2021 Maine Ideas Challenge. Formerly known as the Student Innovation Challenge, the.
Isaiah Lopez and
Victoria Kashiwai, students in the Shidler College of Business’ School of Accountancy, used their data analytic skills to measure the company’s performance, collaborate online to create a video presentation and pitch their business strategy virtually to a panel of
CPAs and business professionals who simulated Pueblo’s management team.
“I am looking to pursue a career in professional services and the TrueUp Student Innovation Challenge provided me with a valuable taste of what my future might be,” Kashiwai said. “In addition to the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with my colleagues, this challenge has given me the experience to utilize raw data to measure performance and create proposals to improve a client’s business. I look forward to using the skills that I have learned in my future professional career.”
Author of the article: Sudbury Star Staff
Publishing date: Jan 26, 2021 • January 27, 2021 • 2 minute read •
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RBC has joined as the leading sponsor of the Cambrian College Student Innovation Challenge, the college has announced in a release.
The three-year partnership, valued at $30,000, is the result of a 10-year, $500 million commitment from RBC to prepare Canadian youth for the future.
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In 2020, RBC committed to investing $50 million from now until 2025 through RBC Future Launch to create “meaningful and transformative pathways to prosperity,” including support for up to 25,000 BIPOC youth with investments in areas such as skills development and mentoring.
Student Innovation Challenge: Kunal Shamdasani dreams of nonclogging toilet paper By on
By Annika Tomlin
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers hoarded toilet paper out of fear it would sell out. Now that it’s easily found, UA sophomore Kunal Shamdasani has a pitch to make a cost-effective nonclogging toilet paper.
One day in February, a freshman Shamdasani was walking to one of his campus jobs and saw a black-and-white flier on a vending machine about the Tech Launch Arizona Student Innovation Challenge. Students were asked to submit an idea that could eventually be commercialized.
Tech Launch Arizona is an organization at UA that helps bring technologies and innovations that originated with the university research a meaningful application that leads to commercialization.