Tag: innovation

  • Cisco sold on Sheridan students’ proposal

    Cisco sold on Sheridan students’ proposal

    STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS Four Sheridan students were awarded a $10,000 prize and declared the winners of the President’s Innovation Challenge for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. The event was held on Saturday at Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus. The winning team, going by the name “Fantastic Four,” is comprised of Interactive Multimedia post-grad students…

  • Arts and Innovation Day: taking care of business

    Arts and Innovation Day: taking care of business

    STORY BY JAIME POLMATEER PHOTOS PROVIDED BY KELLY KARIUS Students interested in the business of the arts will have a chance to pick the brains of Sheridan grads and business partners Friday. Arts and Innovation Day, part of Halton Entrepreneurship Week, kicks off at 8:15 a.m. in J102 in SCAET wing. “What we are trying…

  • A phone worth keeping

    A phone worth keeping

      STORY BY MICHELLE WHITTEMORE Phonebloks plans to Thunderclap social media on Oct. 29. The new phone design, created by Dave Hakkens of the Netherlands, is designed to last forever. The idea is to reduce global electronic waste. Hakkens proposes a phone that allows users to swap components rather than replacing the whole unit when…