C4 Management: Are you C4 or ENG4K alumni? Or a graduate student? Ready to further develop your leadership and project management skills? Eager to dive into an even bigger real-world project? Then C4 Management is for you… Ideal for C4 or ENG4K alumni (or graduate students) who want to hone their management skills by leading […]
C4 Launchpad: Are you C4 curious? Ready to gain skills in interdisciplinary teamwork? Want to work closely with a community or industry partner on a real-world project? Then, C4 Launchpad is for you… Ideal for Students new to C4 who want to engage across disciplinary boundaries on a large, complex, social-impact project and grow professionally. […]
About Summer C4 2021(3.0) In C4 Launchpad, forty undergraduates who are new to C4 work intensively over the summer with an energetic and dynamic team on one big, complex, multi-disciplinary project, pitched by a single off-campus partner invested in social impact. Students are broken up into sub-teams and project managed by ten C4 alumni who […]
Project Summary Like many people in the non-profit sector we came into this hoping to make an impact on the Jane and Finch community, a community about which we did not realize we held many unexamined beliefs. As we faced challenges, shortcomings, and failures, it became clear that before we engaged in this kind of […]
CooperLab Project Summary Our project aims to address the issue of affordable and clean energy for remote and developing communities. The solution we created is a low-cost solar concentrator that generates both heat and electricity. This technology was designed using affordable and accessible materials to magnify the irradiance of the sun twenty times onto the […]
Yonge Street Mission Project Summary Our project was to create an online platform that bridged the gap between frontline workers and the newest research relating to poverty-related trauma. Initially, we had decided that our solution would involve us conducting research and drawing our own conclusions regarding poverty-related trauma, then providing our reports and findings to […]
Foundation for Environmental Stewardship (FES) Project Summary We are Women’s Youth Network, a youth-led conglomerate of women, feminists, and human rights activists across the globe focused on empowering women & youth by connecting them to each other, facilitating self-organization, self-determination, and self-sustenance. Learn More Project Website Student Faculties Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Sustainable Development […]
More Than Marks Tutoring and Oakville Arts Studio, Inc. Project Summary Depression and isolation amongst youth have been serious problems in educational settings for over a decade. Our challenge was to find ways to increase positive social relations between pre-high school youth. Using an assets-based strategy and community development practices, we built a digital toolkit […]
Glendon Globally Networked Learning Project Summary We wanted to make a difference by helping students who are planning to study abroad and or are already preparing to venture off. Aside from the decision to travel to a new place just for school, making choices can be very difficult and stressful especially when trying to find […]
Canobi Tech Project Summary Our project was essentially to create a standalone convenient food growing unit that can be used easily in the most common of urban settings. This food-growing unit would also reduce the pressure on the urban biosphere whilst boosting its ecological benefits. We wanted to make a positive impact on the environment […]