Awards

Awarded to a full-time student within the province building a startup at the same time, based on the following criteria:

Attitude: The student demonstrates humility, perseverance and grit.

Ability to execute: The student has demonstrated the ability to execute a strategy and achieve key startup milestones such as assessing product-market fit, raising capital, or generating revenue.

Leadership: The student has demonstrated strong leadership skills in building and growing their company.

Business potential: The student's business is solving a massive problem.

Awarded $7000

Conducting a validation study for a generalizably architectured BCI software program created by a project team I formed and have been leading since November 2020.

Awarded $1000

Included in the Emerging Artists Unleashed: 2021 exhibition and accompanying catalogue. 

Provided with a two year Student Associate Membership (2021 & 2022)

This is part of the project Know Thyself as a Virtual Reality. Know Thyself as a Virtual Reality is an interdisciplinary project that focuses on the ethics and aesthetics of the use of medical data and virtual reality.

Received the People's Choice Awards at the annual launch party hosted by Startup Calgary (8 Bit Cortex).

Awarded during the Samara BCI 2020 Conference, where I presented work for a team I led in the creation of an art-generating Brain Computer Interface (BCI). 

Placed top 15 for tech startups in Calgary and invited to Startup Calgary's 11th annual Launch Party (8 Bit Cortex).

Abrupt Clarity

This body of work exists at the intersection of brain science, technology, and the self. Foremost is an exploration of contrast between the increasing omnipresence of technology and the stark incompatibility with human volition. Upon facing this, what are the moral and practical implications in conceiving of self as an illusory construct? 

MindOverDrive - Increasing road safety through real time brain state monitoring administering a mild electric shock to ensure driver attention while on the road. 

MindOverDrive - Increasing road safety through real time brain state monitoring administering a mild electric shock to ensure driver attention while on the road. 

Built a prototype of an autonomous microcontroller based search and rescue robot, utilized a time of flight sensor on a custom 3 degrees of freedom scanning platform.

Canadian Space Apps Challenge Top Ranked Team for Edmonton for the NEOSSat challenge.

Awarded $300, in-kind services worth $1,000 from the CIAR, as well as sponsorship to attend Inventures 2019 (travel/accommodations/entry), all of which greatly assisted in further developing a mental health focused neurotechnology software start-up. Coordinated with a small team of experts to develop a working prototype.