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EPICENTRE EVENTS
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Check our
EVENTS
page for updates
October 30, 2019
November 5, 2019
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
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September 7, 2019
September 10, 2019
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A Message from the Director
Fall semester officially starts next week.
EPICentre
has been busy cooking up programs and events to welcome students back to campus the past couple of months.
Application for the
2
nd
Libro EPIC Social Enterprise Pitch Competition is now
open
. Selected applicants will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges on September 19
th
, 2019. Up to four social enterprises will be selected to participate in the
four-month
Libro EPIC Social Enterprise Program
starting October 2019.
The Windsor Mold Group EPIC Makers Base
will reopen for fall semester on September 9
th
, 2019, after going through space reconfiguration this month. We also just launched a new Facebook group @WindsorMoldGroupEPICMakersBase
to share updates and activities of
the
makerspace.
We'd also like to welcome Ethan Raymond to our team as EPIC Makers' Base Student Lead starting this fall.
EPICentre
will be launching a
few
new initiatives later this year.
The EPIC Legal Triage program, in partnership with Professor Myra Tawfik from Faculty of Law will provide
EPICentre's
startups
with legal assessment services. W
e have
also
partnered with the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) to offer course credit to students enrolled in the Ways of Doing course for completing the
EPIC Discovery Program
.
As
part of the
Windsor-Essex Women Emerge Initiative (WE WEI) led by the Windsor Essex Economic Development Corporation (WEEDC)
that is funded by the Government of Canada's
Women Entrepreneurship Strategy
,
EPICentre
will be
launching a new program to support women-led
startups
in emerging technolog
ies
in
W
inter 2019
. Stay tuned for details of the program.
Finally, we would like to welcome UWindsor Developer Student Club (DSC) to the E
PICentre's
community.
EPICentre
will provide the h
omebase
to students in the DSC to support student entrepreneurs from all disciplines.
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What's Your Idea for A Social Enterprise?
The Pitch Competition is for:
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Business ideas that are based in Windsor-Essex (it's okay to have a global impact)
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Social
e
nterprises that h
ave a social
and/or
environmental mission statement along with an idea to generate money
; and
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Founder
(s)
must be eligible to work in Canada
.
Application forms can be found
here
.
Please contact Sydney Thompson, EPICentre Program Lead, for inquiries.
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The Entrepreneurship Practice and Innovation Centre (EPICentre) will launch a program to support women-led startups in emerging technology space in winter 2019.
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A new program will provide resources to UWindsor students from any academic discipline interested in developing computer software.
The Developer Student Club is supported by the School of Computer Science and the Entrepreneurship Practice and Innovation Centre (EPICentre) in partnership with WEtech Alliance.
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Faculty Entrepreneurship and Commercializations Lunch n' Learn series
EPICentre, in partnership with the Office of Research and Innovation Services (ORIS), hosts monthly Faculty Entrepreneurship & Commercialization Lunch n' Learn events to share the latest happenings in entrepreneurship and research commercialization space. Each month, we invite a different guest speaker to come and share his/her experiences in how he/she incorporates entrepreneurship in his/her course in the entrepreneurship stream. In commercialization stream, the guest speaker will share with the audience his/her business and how that business supports his/her research and vice versa. Read More
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EPICentre welcomes Ethan to our team
Ethan will join Aman as the EPIC Makers' Base Student Lead to assist our makerspace members starting fall. Ethan is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering - Automotive program. See more of Ethan's bio
here
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Catching up with Jesse Thompson
On August 1st, Jesse Thompson, founder of HaggleFree took home the grand prize in our RBC EPIC Founders Pitch Day after completing the 12-week accelerator program. We had a chance to catch up with him and talk to him about his experience Read More
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Pursuing My Dream of Improving My English and Learning About Entrepreneurship in Canada
I always had a dream of travelling, bettering my English and transforming myself as an entrepreneur. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to come to Windsor, Ontario to pursue this dream.
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Meet Our EPIC Discovery Members
Meet two of our EPIC Discovery members, Computer Science students Andrea Swartz and Daniel Dupont. Together, they are working on a web-based electronic health record system targeted for Ontario to allow patients to access their health information online.
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UWindsor Alum Gains Recognition for Fertility Startup, Lila
While Alyssa Atkins endured an unnerving three-month wait to get the results of her fertility test, she figured there had to be a better way. In less time than it took to receive her results, she launched her own female fertility company, Lilia, to tackle the problem.
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Become an EPIC Student Ambassador
Join our team as an EPIC Student Ambassador!
Student Ambassadors will advocate and promote EPICentre programs & services by planning and hosting an event/activity for their respective faculty that promotes and educates the student body on our facilities services.
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EPIC Connections: Summer Camp with Patrick Whalen
Summer's not over yet! Join us for a night of EPIC Connections (Summer Camp Edition), a networking event for students and community members to connect and engage. Read More
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UWindsor Ten Thousand Coffees:
Online Networking and Mentorship
What if every student and alumni from UWindsor had five to fifteen new connections to learn, share, and grow?
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Generate Innovation Challenge for Collaborative Innovation Partnerships
On Sept. 10, OPG is launching the
Generate Innovation Challenge
. This competition invites innovators from across the country - startups, scale-ups, entrepreneurs, academics, scientists and researchers - to submit the best idea, technology, or solution on four core issues underpinning not only OPG's nuclear challenges, but industry challenges as a whole.
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Apply for the Women Founders Fund
to invest in women-led companies in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) through the creation of a platform which provides micro-grants to women entrepreneurs across Canada while accelerating the gender parity and further unleash the economic potential of women.
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What could your business do with $100,000?
With more than $150,000 in prizes on the line, TELUS Pitch is Canada's largest small business competition, offering Canadian entrepreneurs the chance to reap the rewards of their hard work with a $100,000 cash payout.
Learn More
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Leaders Prize
Fact or Fake News?
With the advancement of machine learning and natural language processing techniques, we
have an opportunity to fact
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check claims faster than ever and stop fake news before it spreads.
The Leaders Prize will award
$1
million
to the team who can best use artificial intelligence to
automate the fact
-
checking process and flag whether a claim is true or false.
Learn More
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