SV Gap Year Program

Many students, from incoming undergraduates (“Rising Freshman or Freshers”) through to PhD’s (Doctoral Students) are considering taking a Gap Year (GY) or Voluntary Leave of Absence (VLA) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Between 12 and 20 percent of college (undergraduate) students say that they will take a Gap Year, along with 16 percent of rising freshman click here. This number will increase many universities do not open their physical campuses this Autumn and instead opt for the online learning. Preliminary research shows that as many as 25% of undergraduate and graduate-level students are considering a VLA for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking the plans of universities. Click hereto view.

Canadian Student Startups Win funding from Velocity Fund of the University of Waterloo

25 Jul 2019

The Velocity Fund was established by a $1 million donation from Kik founder Ted Livinston. This former student-entrepreneur founded the Kik messaging startup as a student and dropped of the University of Waterloo to pursue the venture fulltime. The fund makes $5K donations to local and student startups.

This year Four student teams have won a grant. These include the following:

Insula Medical. Founded by Joel Ravi, Connor Al-Joundi, Salmon, and Raiyan Faruqui.
Emergency Response Africa Founded by masters students Maame Poku and Folake Owodunni.
VOYHS Founded by Founded by chemistry student Lynne Murdoch and Erica Phelps, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkRxlCSag7c&list=PLhHYPy2047hvmd7XjaCAIyvC-eo1Md6RL&index=9&t=0s
WatFly Founded by Abinesh Chandrasekhar and Gonzalo Espinoza Graham, See Watfly final presentation here:

The Velocity Fund

The University of Waterloo’s Velocity Incubator:

Source: The University of Waterloo; Betakit.com

Ted Livinston: https://twitter.com/ted_livingston?lang=en Ted Livinston:

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Our Club was launched in the summer of 2020. We seek to build a virtual community of students globally who are current university and college students at any level of study (undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, professional or postdoctoral). Our chapter has monthly meetings, guest speakers, and will develop more programming as we grow and are influenced by motivated student leaders yet to come. The SVEC is a Chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO).

Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization a 501 (c) (3) not for profit charitable corporation, founded in 1983 It supports more than 16,500 emerging collegiate entrepreneurs annually. CEO believes that any student, regardless of academic discipline, can launch a business. Through its global network of more than 250 college and university chapters, CEO supports and inspires the growth and development of any student that seeks to be entrepreneurial.

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