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The Ontario Science Centre is seeking nominations for the prestigious annual Weston Youth Innovation Award. Created to encourage and recognize young Canadian innovators, the award provides students aged 14 to 18 a unique vehicle to share their ideas and be featured at one of Canada’s most popular attractions. Read the rest of this entry »

CBC has teamed up with the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) and community groups in Quebec to sponsor a video contest that encourages English-speaking high school students to discover the history and heritage of their families and communities. Read the rest of this entry »

Nissan Canada wants to know in 140 characters or less what innovation means to you. With the Nissan Innovation Contest the car maker is open to creative and interesting ideas that can shift the Nissan brand into the next level.  With technology being the key to all Nissan vehicles, they want to reach out to those with the same passions as them.  Here is a brief summary of contest: Read the rest of this entry »

World Book’s Building Blocks of Science characters have been kidnapped by an Evil Scientist–the dastardly Dr. Edwin Quark. Gasp! He has hidden the Building Blocks of Science characters throughout the universe and World Book needs help in finding them in time to publish the 10-volume series. Read the rest of this entry »

Toshiba Canada’s Nominate a Hero contest invites you to pay it forward by nominating a hero in your life who has helped you in a memorable way. By submitting your story and a photo, you will have the opportunity to select from 3 available prize packs that your hero could potentially win if they are selected as one of the top three winners.  As a bonus, you will also receive a Toshiba Tablet if your hero is selected as one of three winners. Read the rest of this entry »

Allan Gotlieb, Chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation, today announced that the winner of the Donner Book Prize, the award for best book on public policy by a Canadian, will now receive $50,000 (up from $35,000).  The other shortlisted titles will now take home $7,500 (up from $5,000).  Mr. Gotlieb also announced the official Call for Submissions and Jury for the fourteenth annual Donner Prize. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the weekend of September 30th, more than 400 college and university students competed in the Great Canadian Appathon2, creating  a mobile game in under 48 hours. At the KPMG- sponsored Grand Finale on November 2nd, the top three teams showed off their games before a panel of judges. Read the rest of this entry »

Fuelled by pizza and energy drinks more than 400 students across Canada worked non-stop over the weekend of September 30th to develop 88 mobile games during the Great Canadian Appathon². Presented by XMG Studio and the National Post, the Great Canadian Appathon² gave students the opportunity to win over $50,000 in cash and prizes, get their game published and even win a chance at a job in the games industry at XMG Studio. Read the rest of this entry »

Ten young nature enthusiasts have been selected as finalists in the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation and Earth Day^®  Canada Art Contest, which invited elementary students to submit a drawing of their favourite part of nature.  Canadians now have the opportunity to help select the winner by voting for their favourite entry. Voting ends on November 11, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media and Dx3 Canada have announced a partnership to launch the “Intertainment Media Incubation Zone” (IMIZ) at the Dx3 Canada event on January 25^th & 26^th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The “IMIZ” will showcase some of Canada’s formalized Incubation Programs, with Ryerson’s DMZ, OCADU, the Impact Entrepreneurship Group and MEIC already confirmed as participants. The Zone will showcase the respective incubators and their members, culminating in a panel “pitch-off” for the chance to win a $20,000 prize of cash and professional services plus the opportunity to work with Intertainment Media for one year. Read the rest of this entry »