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WIMTACH Hackathons Provide Valuable Industry Experience for Centennial College Students and Innovative Ideas for Industry Partners.

Hackathons are one of the key ways WIMTACH provides students with experiential learning opportunities. These hackathons are also a way to offer innovative technological solutions for clients and industry partners. Many of the students who have participated in WIMTACH hackathons are now members of the WIMTACH team. This happened recently with a virtual hackathon with […] Read more

May, 25, 2021

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WIMTACH Hosts First-Ever Virtual Hackathon in collaboration with Agincourt Business Services

For many small and medium-sized businesses, one of the biggest challenges throughout this ongoing pandemic has been accessing resources and services. At WIMTACH, we continue to adapt our services to virtual platforms to move forward with applied research projects, online training and other business development opportunities to best assist our clients and industry partners. One […] Read more

May, 17, 2021

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How an applied research project with a long-time WIMTACH collaborator helped students learn valuable skills for their future.

A group photo of the team during the last meeting with Interdev representatives. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge, healthcare innovation has become a global priority. The healthcare landscape has been rapidly evolving across Canada over the past year, mainly due to the pandemic. People are looking for new ways to optimize their healthcare […] Read more

May, 10, 2021

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#WIMTACHatHome: Akshay Kumar

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, WIMTACH has continued its efforts to support its Student Researchers to gain experiential learning, job opportunities, employable skills and industry knowledge of digital health sectors. This series will highlight how students and faculty who work with WIMTACH are managing the ongoing changes to their daily lives. Teamwork is the cornerstone of […] Read more

Aug, 21, 2020

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How one hackathon with WIMTACH sparked an applied research project for Interdev

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, correspondence has continued between WIMTACH and its industry partners. Trainings, technical consultation and applied research projects have taken on new forms and processes to continue the progress that has been made so far. Collaboration has been at the centre of these efforts. It strengthens the network of digital health companies across […] Read more

Aug, 21, 2020

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Orthopedic Design Networking Event

There have been numerous advancements in medical device technologies, and they are delivering tangible benefits such as quick disease detection, reduced patient recovery time and lower cost of instruments to the healthcare system. However, these advancements have come with increasing challenges, including security concerns and connectivity issues for IoT devices, design related issues and time-to-market […] Read more

Oct, 10, 2019

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Centennial College students bring innovation to the medical industry

WIMTACH is committed to giving students invaluable knowledge and experiences beyond the classroom with hackathons. In July, WIMTACH hosted its third hackathon of the year. Over two days, 31 students were tasked with two challenges presented by Dr. Jon Hummel, interim Chief Surgeon of the Scarborough Health Network in collaboration with Intellijoint and OrthoBiomed, an […] Read more

Jul, 10, 2019

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Centennial students design mobile app for vulnerable people in emergencies

For 24 Centennial College students, their classroom experience took them to a WIMTACH hackathon. For two days – May 30th and 31st – four groups of six students each from Software Engineering programs gathered in the College’s auditorium to take on an innovative, hackathon challenge presented by WIMTACH and one of its industry clients, Interdev, […] Read more

Jun, 11, 2019

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Students bring a story to life at WIMTACH’s latest hackathon

By: Linda Vachon 28 students of Centennial College’s Interactive Gaming program raced against time to bring a coffee table book to life as part of a hackathon held at Progress Campus on February 25, 2019.   The hackathon was organized by WIMTACH, (Wearable, Interactive and Mobile Technology Access Centre in Health) which partners with companies […] Read more

May, 02, 2019

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Hackathon event at Wimtach

Hackathon creates new software in just 36 hours

Six teams of Centennial College Software Engineering Technology students toiled for 36 hours to create new software applications as part of the college’s latest “hackathon” held on July 7 and 8 at the Wearable, Interactive and Mobile Technology Access Centre (WIMTACH) at Progress Campus. The participants were tasked with creating three distinct software apps in […] Read more

Sep, 06, 2016

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