Queen's Summit
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 5:15pm
The Queens Start-up Summit is a University wide weekend long competition. Each year delegates are accepted from all over the province as designers, developers and general delegates. The aim is to create a start-up pitch ready for market within the weekend.
It is an annual initiative founded by the Queen’s Innovation Connector that supports the advancement of student entrepreneurship, providing an opportunity for students to collaborate, compete, and realize their potential.
This year OCAD University students were found in each winning team, claiming First prize of $5000.00 for ‘Spaces’. With different disciplines collaborating with their specific expertise, it is an important experience to diversify skills as well as an wonderful opportunity to have ideas funded.
1st Place: Spaces
Marvin Lau - OCAD U Advertising
Igor-Manuel Aldomar Jurczyk - OCAD U Industrial Design
Alex Jin - Queens U
Praveeni Rasiah - Queens U
Maggie Ou -Queens U
Terry Zhang - Queens U
Ocean Cheung - McMaster
David Huang - Waterloo
Spaces is a contextual furniture store run on an e-commerce platform
2nd Place: Edify
Grace Walker - OCAD U Graphic Design
Mickie Halpern - OCAD U Illustration
Taylor William - McMaster
Nicholas Rogers - Queens U
Evelyn Morris - Queens U
Newton Zheng - Queens U
Andrew Lawlor - Queens U
Edify is a app/program to connect students and tutors
3rd Place: Breeze
Kamilah Carter - OCAD U Graphic Design
Chris Grouchy - Queens U
Anuj Arora - Queens U
Ankur Gupta - Queens U
Natu Myers - Queens U
Alex Adusei - Queens U
Breeze is a user friendly security system for employee devices
The Queens Start-up Summit is a University wide weekend long competition. Each year delegates are accepted from all over the province as designers, developers and general delegates. The aim is to create a start-up pitch ready for market within the weekend.
It is an annual initiative founded by the Queen’s Innovation Connector that supports the advancement of student entrepreneurship, providing an opportunity for students to collaborate, compete, and realize their potential.
This year OCAD University students were found in each winning team, claiming First prize of $5000.00 for ‘Spaces’. With different disciplines collaborating with their specific expertise, it is an important experience to diversify skills as well as an wonderful opportunity to have ideas funded.
1st Place: Spaces
Marvin Lau - OCAD U Advertising
Igor-Manuel Aldomar Jurczyk - OCAD U Industrial Design
Alex Jin - Queens U
Praveeni Rasiah - Queens U
Maggie Ou -Queens U
Terry Zhang - Queens U
Ocean Cheung - McMaster
David Huang - Waterloo
Spaces is a contextual furniture store run on an e-commerce platform
2nd Place: Edify
Grace Walker - OCAD U Graphic Design
Mickie Halpern - OCAD U Illustration
Taylor William - McMaster
Nicholas Rogers - Queens U
Evelyn Morris - Queens U
Newton Zheng - Queens U
Andrew Lawlor - Queens U
Edify is a app/program to connect students and tutors
3rd Place: Breeze
Kamilah Carter - OCAD U Graphic Design
Chris Grouchy - Queens U
Anuj Arora - Queens U
Ankur Gupta - Queens U
Natu Myers - Queens U
Alex Adusei - Queens U
Breeze is a user friendly security system for employee devices