OCE Discovery 09

Ontario's 'Next Generation' Innovators Compete Live

More than 80 university and college students working on OCE-funded projects competed live in the 4th annual OCE student competitions. Presenting to an independent panel of judges, cash prizes were awarded to the top three presentations in the following categories:

Oral Competition

Research students enrolled in OCE's Value-Added Personnel Program provided engaging oral presentations focused on why industry has a need for their research and what the potential impact of their work is.


	FIRST PRIZE Andrew Carrier, Queen's University

	SECOND PRIZE Tim Pryor, McMaster University

	THIRD PRIZE Andrew Zwart, University of Waterloo

Connections Competition

Undergraduate students were challenged to create engaging live presentations of their 'Connections' projects. These final year undergrads have been working with industry partners to address technology problems currently affecting industry.


	FIRST PRIZE Steven Shao, Royston DeSouza, Zhan Zhai, University of Toronto

	SECOND PRIZE Harley Balabanian, Ryan Blake, Quinten Griffiths, Jarvis Wong, Queen's University

	THIRD PRIZE Blair Cameron, Sarah Goldie, Amy Nodwell, University of Guelph

Video Competition

This year's video competition challenged students to showcase their research using video, animation, sound and any other components of the digital age that makes their research compelling.

	FIRST PRIZE MedShare TEAM 3: Christine Nairouz, Noah Buchman, Julia Duan, Rodrigo Eng Castillo, Ashish Khanna University of Waterloo, Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology

	SECOND PRIZE 2G Robotics ULS 100 TEAM 16: Stephanie Hecimovich, Melissa Upjohn, Alison Carere University of Waterloo, Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology

	THIRD PRIZE The Future of Long Term Thermal Energy Storage TEAM 5: Dan Dicaire University of Ottawa, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

	The Development of a Grape Harvester Yield Monitor Prototype TEAM 1: Albert Brooks University of Guelph, School of Engineering

	NALION Technologies TEAM 2: Balinder Ahluwalia, Karen Doering, Fraser Harris, Andrea Yang, Georgina Zhou University of Waterloo, Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology

	Niagara Escarpment Toe Restoration Project TEAM 4: Colleen Knight, Brooke Davidson, Becky Fitzgerald Niagara College, Department of Environment, Horticulture, & Agri-business

	Printing Integrated Manufacturing TEAM 6: Dayna Chan University of Waterloo, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

	Optimizing the Bioreactor Landfill TEAM 7: Emily Vingerhoeds Carleton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

	Clearpath Robotics TEAM 8: Fazlin Bandali, Jordan Hare, Alexandra Nikolajev, Christian Reina University of Waterloo, Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology

	Canine Automatic Network Extension System TEAM 9: Jimmy Tran, Martin Gerdzhev Ryerson University, Department of Computer Science

	Ripe Tomato Recognition/Localization and Harvesting TEAM 10: Jin Pei, Baozeng Jia University of Guelph, School of Engineering

	UAVs and Enhanced Command and Control Operations: On the Future of Search and Rescue Technology TEAM 11: Matt Brown, Derek Pasma, Andrew Staples Carleton University, Department of Psychology

	Sensory and Aromatic Comparison of Wine in Three Barrel Types TEAM 12: Melissa Smits, Mackenzie Brisbois, Sarah Lepp Niagara College, Department of Environment, Horticulture, and Agri-business

	Biofuels Production from Microalgae TEAM 13: Darcy Small, Mitchell Brogan The University of Western Ontario, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

	Large Area Electronics Processing Platform TEAM 14: Ryan Butler, Matthew Higgins, Kurtis Schram Niagara College, Technology Division

	Hydrogen Truck TEAM 15: Shahriyar (Shawn) Garmsiri, Othman J. Jaber University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Department of Automotive Engineering

	Virtual Button Technology TEAM 17: Yen Tseng, Abel Sy University of Waterloo, Departments of Economics & Engineering