App Design Competition - Active Mental Health Initiative

The Hamilton Chapter of "Active Mental Health Initiative" (AMHI) is organizing a symposium called "Apps, Activity and Wellbeing Interdisciplinary Symposium” in collaboration with w. Booth school of Engineering, McMaster University at CIBC Hall, McMaster on November 24, 2018  from 11am to 4pm.  The vision of the Symposium is to spread awareness of the role of physical activity in promoting mental health.

In addition, we are holding a competition for high school and university students, in which they have to come up with an innovative idea of a smartphone application on physical activity, which would be sustainable in promoting behaviour change based on the people’s perception of positive mental health with physical activity. For instance, take a happy face selfie after physical activity and the happy face shows up as a reinforcer before the reminder for physical activity next day. It will encourage the high school students to use their creativity to come up with different ideas for apps involving physical activity, human touch and behavioral change. This competition is an initiative to promote physical activity and mental health via technology.

The competition will be online and the registration forms are out. Deadline has been extended to Nov 10, 2018. All high school students are eligible to apply. They can apply in a team of 2-5 using the google form link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8dF2pZUQrd0bAi-Asgisg9XR3J7HvaXf2aexkxx-IWwNNxw/viewform
They can also register at www.activementalhealthinitiative.com
Once they register and pay the registration fees of $10/team, they will be emailed the app competition package with all the details of the competition. Judges will be renowned Faculty from McMaster. All participants will present their idea at the symposium and awards will be presented there. The awards include $100(First award),$50(second place) and $25(Third place). In addition, there will be bonus prizes and all participants will receive a certificate of participation from w. Booth school of engineering. If you have any questions, email me at ishaan228@gmail.com

More info is available here.

The University of Toronto High School Design Competition (UTHSDC)

The University of Toronto High School Design Competition (UTHSDC) is a one-day design competition for high school students; the goal of this competition is to engage and inspire students interested in learning more about engineering, while gaining some practical design experience.

Date: Sunday, November 27th, 2016
Time: Please check in at 8:30 a.m.; the event concludes at 5:30 p.m.  Lunch will be provided.
Location: Bahen Center for Information Technology
Who: Grades 9–12
Cost of registration: $15.00 per person (includes building material costs)

Participants will compete in teams of 3-5 to conceptualize, design, build, and communicate a solution to a real world engineering design challenge in a ‘hackathon’ format.

The Judging Teams will consist of professors, recent engineering graduates, and professionals currently working in industry.

In addition to the design competition, you will have the opportunity to:

• Attend a keynote design presentation from esteemed University of Toronto Engineering Faculty
• Attend an “engineering opportunities” fair at lunch with student groups from U of T Engineering & industry
• Meet an array of current engineering student “mentors” from all disciplines. They are on call to answer any and all questions you may have related to studying engineering at U of T!

For more information and to register, click here.