Students participated in a variety of competitions, including culinary, cabinetmaking and mechatronics. Humber did extremely well this year, winning three gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Congratulations to all our winners:

• Derick Cheaney won gold in the Mechanical CAD competition.
• Spencer Brown won gold in the Cabinetmaking competition.
• Mateusz Cwalinski and Bogdan Malynovskyy won gold in the Mechatronics competition.
• David Anselmo and Zachary Goodman won silver in the Mechatronics competition.
• Divya Manivannan won bronze for the IT Software Solutions for Business competition.
• Andrew Vassallo won bronze for the Automation and Control competition.
• Brie Girdler won silver in the Landscape Design competition.

The theme of the event was “know before you fly,” a message supported by Transport Canada, the Model Aeronautics Association of Canada and Unmanned Systems Canada.

This wall will be built by Visual Elements and showcased at Globalshop 2017 in Vegas. There are 8 teams of 4th-year students that will be competing within Humber BID for this project.  

Students were invited to meet Andy Thaemert of NIKE (Senior Creative Director of Global Retail Design) at Visual Elements who gave the students feedback on their preliminary proposals. They were then given a tour of the impressive manufacturing facilities of Visual Elements by Robert Turk, John Simmen and Randy Simmen.

A video conference feedback session was held recently with Andy Thaemert, Randy Simmen and Neal Claassen from So Showcases (PAVE representative) to allow each of the 8 student teams 15 minutes for feedback on their proposals sent to NIKE.

The winning team will be chosen by NIKE and Visual Elements. The scheme will be built in Toronto by Visual Elements to be showcased at Globalshop in Las Vegas on March 2017.

The winning team will have the opportunity to travel to Vegas for Globalshop and for the construction of the proposal for the NIKE wall. Final presentations are tentatively scheduled for Dec.1

The Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) will help Canadian colleges and universities improve the quality of facilities dedicated to innovation, training, research and environmental sustainability. Colleges were requested to submit projects that met funding criteria and a substantial completion requirement of April 2018. 

We are very excited to announce that the School of Applied technology has applied for the funding of the Centre for Technology and Innovation (North Campus). 

Preliminary planning is underway with the School of Applied Technology, the School of Media Studies and Information Technology and Humber Research to develop a state-of-the-art idea accelerator, with programs focused on sustainable building practices, automated manufacturing and human-centered, technology-enabled solutions. Planning is in progress for the construction of a 70,000-square-foot building that will be located in the area that is currently parking lot 3A, between the LRC and the University of Guelph-Humber building.