To celebrate the success of the year’s Microcredit competition and the amazing group of competitors,  Impact Microcredit’s amazing Media Partner, Globe Campus, published this incredible article on the 10 day challenge. The article features interviews with competitors, the President of the Impact Entrepreneurship Group and the chairperson for this year’s Microcredit competiton!

Congratulations to the Microcredit team and all the participants in this years competition! Check out the full article here.

Are you working on the latest, greatest, most fascinating new science and technology?  The OCE Student Video Competition is your opportunity to broadcast your project to the world; through the OCE Discovery website, YouTube channel, Facebook Page and on the big screens at OCE’s Discovery 2010.

Use your creative video skills to:

1. Tell your research story
2. Introduce your research team
3. Show us your technology
4. Explain the benefits and outcomes of your work
5. Connect to the Ontario innovation network
6. Attract investors
7. Inspire others
8. Promote collaboration

You could win cash prizes:

• 1^st Prize: $2,500
• 2^nd Prize: $1,500
• 3^rd Prize: $1,000

Competition Quick Notes:

When: Starting immediately. Entry forms must be submitted by April 1, 2010. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube before April 30^th, 2010.

How: Upload your video to www.YouTube.com (naming it as instructed, and informing OCE when your video is ready) and it will be added to the OCE Discovery 2010 Video Contest YouTube Channel.  The panel of judges will award cash prizes to the top three videos, but all finalists will receive a free pass to Discovery 2010.

Who: The video contest is open to all post-secondary students enrolled at an Ontario university or college during the period of April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010. Students must be working on an applied science research project with commercial potential.

For additional information, or to download the application form, please visit the student centre at ocediscovery.com, or contact Jamie Doran at (519) 998-2476 and james.doran@oce-ontario.org.

The 2009 Impact National Conference is featured in the December SNAP Downtown Toronto newspaper!

SNAP is a FREE monthly print publication specializing in a “non-political” friendly and entertaining photographic view of living in our community.

What is it like to be able to share your thoughts and ideas with thousands of people via a video show? Fantastic, as in the opinion of the three of us Impact members who had the opportunity to join Mark Franklin, the host of Career Buzz on CIUT 89.5 FM last week on Friday, October 30th, 2009. During the one-hour show targeted at university students, graduates, and well as other people interested in seeking career opportunities, we were engaged in a fun and informative talk mainly about youth entrepreneurship and how our experience on the Impact Entrepreneurship Group has influenced where we are today in our academic life and our career paths.

The show featured Christine Lu, the director of Impact’s communications team, Aditya Shah, an Impact alumni who has successfully started his entrepreneurial venture, and Yue Liu, a past Impact Microcredit Competition participant and a current Impact member, as well as Herky Cutler, the youth career correspondence of CareerCycles based in Alberta. The conversation flowed from general career and academic choices and paths chosen by the Impact members to how Impact has had a positive impact on the not only the lives of Impacters, but also thousands of youth across Canada. The entrepreneurial spirit promoted by Impact is fully demonstrated by the three interviewees as they carry out different innovative ventures in their extracurricular activities and career adventures. As university students and graduates, we have truly received a lot from Impact, among which the most important would be the vision and confidence to look at the alternative path of entrepreneurship as supposed to finding a corporate job, and to have the ability to carry out your passion and to realize your dream. Relating to the current economic downturn, we reached the conclusion that now would be the best time for young people to take a serious look at all their career alternatives, including starting a business in an area of their expertise and passion. While starting a business might not be your interest, a passion for entrepreneurial pursuits and innovations would still be necessary for today’s youth to stand out of the crowd and to really utilize their resources in accomplishing something valuable both to them and to the society.

And that is where Impact comes into play – to promote entrepreneurial spirit and leadership among Canadian youth, by hosting events and competitions, providing services, and spreading the news such as by having an enjoyable chat on the radio show. Please join us in appreciating youth entrepreneurship on Career Buzz, and see how entrepreneurship plays an important role in your career path! Photos to come soon!

Yesterday on an early Monday morning at 8:30am, Janani Balendran, our fabulous co-chair of our upcoming Impact National Conference,was interviewed on the Toronto Morning Live show (CHRY 105.5FM). She was invited on the show to discuss how Impact is celebrating the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Week and to share her perspectives on the benefits of youth entrepreneurship.

If you missed out on the show, click here to have a listen!

We thank DJ Manifest & Flo for the opportunity to share our story across the radio waves!