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Behind the minds of the TU20 Fellowships winners
David Li and Jason Huang The Project: Fraser Connect is a pilot project aimed at helping students engage with their school community. In particular, the various clubs and events that their schools would be running. Students have the ability to view feeds of daily...
Jennifer Ge: Top Young Professional
Jennifer is a Business Specialist Intern at PayPal Canada, where she gets the opportunity to explore what she is studying and her interest in tech. She is heading into her second year at the University of Toronto in the Rotman Commerce program and hopes to specialize in finance and economics in the future.
7 Job “Skills” That Don’t Require Skill
Whether you’re working on your resume or heading into a job interview, the one question that you’ll have to address is what skills you possess that will make you stand out to an employer. If you haven’t taken the time to analyze your skill set, this question can be...
Empowrtech’s Journey With the Tech Under 20 Cup
Introduction When tasked with the seemingly challenging objective of developing, perfecting and proposing an idea, we were overwhelmed. Meet our team, Jaiden Ratti, Jivan Kesan and Curtis Sinopoli, three grade nines entering the Tech Under 20 Cup for the first time,...
Why Companies Should Hire Students
We are reaching the point in the year in which students from all fields are applying to companies for summer internships. For students, the benefits of a high skill summer job is obvious. It’s now time to address the companies – why should companies hire students?...
TU20 2018 in review
DENYS LINKOV TU20 Lead For us at TU20, a year marks 5-7% of our lives which is quite remarkable. But, rather than just being a percentage, a year is an opportunity to become wise, kinder and more thoughtful. This is our second annual review to share many memories...
TU20 Highlight: Burlington Economic Development
Preparing for the TU20 Cup was not easy. It required lots of paperwork, lots of physical labor and lots of guidance and input that made the event as exciting as it was. In the end, the question remained, "Exactly what problems are we trying to solve?" With the help...
TU20 Highlight: MTechHub
Every TU20 event is made successful by several contributing members. The TU20 executive team, the attendees, community partners and sponsors. We recently hosted our first annual Policy in Technology event and wanted to highlight our key sponsors who made the event...
2018 TU20 Policy in Technology Recap
Nov 19th: This weekend we hosted our inaugural TU20 Policy in Technology competition. 30 students from 5 different high schools competed in a 3 hour case competition focused on trying to find problems and solutions with AI. Our theme focused on the "Future of Work"...
Oakville Community Foundation announces $15,000 grant to fund 2019 TU20 Cup Projects
Nov 6th: We're excited to announce that the Oakville Community Foundation (OCF) will be contributing $15,000 to fund the winning projects of the 2019 TU20 cup. The TU20 Cup is TU20's annual entrepreneurship competition focused on building students' tech and...
TU20 Fellowship 2018 – My Summer Experience
My Starting Plan This summer I was involved with the Tech Under Twenty fellowship program where my partner Ansar and I planned to develop an application with the help and guidance of the Tech Under Twenty team. We started off creating an app that could diagnose Benign...
TU20 Fellowship 2018 – Learning to Develop a Project by Calvin Mozola
Brilliant Planning - Web tool for City Planning The Idea I heard about the TU20 fellowship from my computer science teacher and was excited to apply and eager to learn. I came to my idea for my project through my frustration about city traffic as I just recently...
TU20 Fellowship 2018 – My Experience Unexpectedly Taking a Crash Course on the Startup Cycle
This summer when I found out that I have the chance to be a fellow for Tech Under Twenty, I was expecting that it is going to be 6 weeks of just me and my friend programming. Little did I know, I was setting myself up for a chance to experience the startup cycle in a...
TU20 Fellowships 2018 – My Fellowship Experience by Parmeet Singh
Introduction Hello, my name is Parmeet Singh, and I am currently a first-year student at the University of Toronto. Along with my friend Shusil Shapkota, I joined the Tech Under Twenty Fellowship program. We joined in the hopes of getting the chance to make an app...
TU20 Fellowships 2018 – A Summer with TU20 by Shusil Shapkota
Pill Mate How do you feel when your boss tells you, YOU will only get 25% of the break time that you used to get before? That’s only 7.5 mins if you have enjoyed a 30 minutes break. Well, even though it’s not exactly like that but the University of Waterloo made me...