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PiinPoint, a location analytics company, co-foundedÌýby Jim Robeson, a graduate of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering's Master in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program, and Adam Saunders, a current À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Environment student,ÌýisÌýthe latest company from University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ incubator VeloCity, to participate in the prestigiousÌýY Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley.
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Josh Bradshaw, a second-year systems design engineering student, has been chosenÌýby the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Engineering's 2013 co-op student of the year.

High school students with a passion for designing, building and programming robots will compete from March 20 to 22 at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ in the qualifying round for FIRST, an international robotics competition.
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Thirty teams with names such as SWAT, Warp7, Simbotics, Ice Cubed, BeaverworX, REBotics and Ram-ferno will vie for an invitation to the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, where they will compete with teams from all over the world for the title of 2014 FRC World Champions.
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Alison Scott, a chemical engineering MASc candidate and engineering outreach volunteer, has been awarded theÌýCanadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Master's Scholarship. Each year, the prestigious scholarship of $10,000Ìýis awarded toÌýone woman enrolled full-time in an engineering master’s program at a Canadian university.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Researchers Chitral Angammana and Shesha Jayaram have been honoured with theÌýIEEE James R. Melcher Prize Paper Award 2013, for the technical excellence displayed in their work entitled Investigation of the Optimum Electric Field for a Stable Electrospinning Process.

Lin Tan and WojciechÌýGolabÌýof electrical and computer engineering have been honoured with GoogleÌýResearch Awards.ÌýTan's software engineering project and Golab'sÌýsystems project were two of the 115 projects to be funded out of the 691 proposals received from researchers working in 46 countries. Their awards each include tuition for a graduate student and theÌý the opportunity to work directly with Google researchers and engineers. This is the second time Tan has won a Google award -- she also received one in 2010.

The new Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design will be awarded this year toÌýupper year engineering projects.Ìý

Fifteen outstanding design projects, shortlisted from all engineering departments during the 2014 Capstone Design Symposia, will be chosen to compete for funding, based on the degree of project innovation and the merit of their business model. The finalists will be announced on March 28.

Capstone challenges you to push your boundaries.Ìý