Canadians throw away almost half of the food they buy. This year, five U of T Engineering students joined forces to tackle that huge problem of food waste, and the app they produced earned them top prize at the social problem-solving showdown The Game.
The six-month competition, hosted by the U of T Engineering’s Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead), held its final presentation event Thursday, March 10, 2016. The Game challenges teams of engineering students to tackle a large-scale social problem with very few parameters: the only direction students are given at the outset is to address the question ‘What’s your vision of a better world?’ and they are free to respond however they choose.
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-Kevin Soobrian