Partnership with YuRide Project Summary YuRide is a Ride-Sharing service proudly founded by YorkU Alumni striving to tackle the public transportation issues faced by university goers. For our project, Team F has worked many hours to develop a plan and prototypes for the company to integrate existing transportation services on campus. Working alongside the C4 […]
Partnership with the SDG Hub at York and the Office of Sustainability at YorkU Project Summary SDGs are Sustainable Development Goals that are intended to help alleviate global inequalities. Our project constellates around introducing these goals to York Students so they can understand and contribute to SDG initiatives in meaningful ways. Accordingly, we have developed […]
Project Summary The goal of our project is to amplify the presence of Indigenous voices in public education and support informed and conscientious cross-cultural knowledge building. The Fostering Indigenous Allyship and Knowledge Building Program aims to share grade-specific Indigenous resources and lesson plans with teachers in order to facilitate student understanding and appreciation for Indigenous […]
Project Summary Roughly 15% of the world population has some form of disability and many people with physical disabilities are currently unable to access exercise programs that accommodate their particular needs. The objective of our project was the creation of an accessible fitness app that catered specifically to people with physical disabilities and allowed them […]
Frost Library Project Summary Our project question was: How can we teach the concepts of inclusion and diversity to children aged 3-8 years old through storytelling? We wanted to shine a light on the lack of representation of children with disabilities in literature while encouraging children to understand the importance of cultivating empathy for people […]
Capstone Day Projects open your eyes ... ...to new ways of thinking, new perspectives on the world and the communities around us, new methods of approaching old problems, and new ways of seeing ourselves. You may browse through Capstone Day Projects by using the search bar below or by hovering over the different project themes. […]
Challenge Question How can we tackle sustainability at Glendon Campus? Partner: Office of Sustainability - YU, Regenesis, Pollution Probe *PIP Partner Intensive Project: This project has goals and parameters that are driven by the designated project partner. It is expected that the student team will work closely with the partner and engage in regular, synchronous collaboration […]
Challenge Question How can we help better simulate the signal environments that renewable energy systems work in, to help design them to be less susceptible to failure or to working in unintended ways? Partner: KPM Power Inc Project Summary Noise from radio frequencies can have a negative effect on the operation of renewable energy storage […]
Challenge Question How might we find evidence of extra-terrestrial life from examining signals from deep space? Partner: TBD Project Summary Does alien life exist? Would you like to be part of a team of researchers to help answer the question? Breakthrough Listen is the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations […]
Challenge Question PIP*: What are the adaptability changes artists should be anticipating to continue to work and generate income in a post-COVID landscape? Partner: Markham Arts Council *PIP Partner Intensive Project: This project has goals and parameters that are driven by the designated project partner. It is expected that the student team will work closely […]