The Impact social that Impact Connect held on February 2nd at the University of Waterloo was a huge success, leaving Waterloo students and Impact members alike to be motivated and excited!

The session was very successful, with over 50 Waterloo students in attendance. A number of  Impact members were also there to share their experiences of being part of Impact, as well as to outline Impact’s plans for the upcoming year.

At the end of the session, many students stuck around to network and mingle with the Impact members, and many expressed interest in becoming involved with Impact’s programs in 2010!

If you were unable to attend Tuesday’s Impact social but are still interested in becoming a part of Impact team, please feel free to contact laura.chelaru (at) impact.org.

To see more photos from the Impact Social, click here.

2008 Waterloo HackU winner Addy Cameron-Huff (in red shirt) is also the winner of the 2009 Yahoo HackU finals in New York City. Photo: Rasmus Lerdorf

As many already know, Impact Connect and Yahoo! had ran the Hack U competition at the University of Waterloo in both 2008 and 2009.  For those who don’t know, HackU is a week-long coding festival challenging the  brightest of the University of Waterloo’s programming community.  The HackU competition is held across Canada and the U.S. and challenges students to develop a web application that solves a problem in 24 hours or less.

In the 2008 HackU competition run by Impact Connect, Waterloo graduate Addy Cameron-Huff won with his application that tracks speeches made by Canadian politicians, allowing constituents to follow the progress of their MPs.

One year later, Cameron-Huff moved on to the HackU finals held in New York City, competing against teams from universities such as Berkeley, Cornell, and the University of Washington. Approximately 40 teams had just two minutes to present their hack.

In New York, Cameron-Huff blew away his competition with his application that sent out instant alerts about insider trades for various stocks.

With these key victories, Impact Connect is proud to have helped Mr. Cameron-Huff on his path to success.

EDIT:  Thanks to Addy Cameron-Huff for posting the link to his presentation!  You can watch it here.

If you are a student at the University of Waterloo, or happen to be passing by in town tomorrow on January 14th, you need to make sure to come and check out the Impact booth! We will be there to share our story, answer any questions you may have, and tell you more about how to join and get involved!

DETAILS

Date: Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Time: 9am – 4pm

Where: Great Hall, Student Life Centre @ University of Waterloo

Why: To meet our execs & chance to win some cool Impact Swag!

Make sure to follow us on @ImpactOrg and our Facebook Fan Page tomorrow as we will be periodically giving out prizes. We can’t wait to see you all there!

Cheers,

2010 Impact team

Join the VeloCity students today at the University of Waterloo for a showcase of their own business ideas they’ve been developing for the past term!

Location: Student Life Centre, University of Waterloo

Time: 11am – 4pm

More info: http://www.velocity.uwaterloo.ca

You can look forward to seeing an array of interesting ideas including the ones mentioned below:

Campus Perks - a free savings program for students helping companies provide discounts, giveaways, prizes and more to students from coast to coast
Delta Sites – a company that helps create and manage a professional website without any technical expertise
uniConnect – helping students connect and network with other co-op students.
Kik — a new and innovative digital music application to play, buy, share and organize music on BlackBerry smart phones
Allerta — a brand new consumer electronics design firm, focused solely on creating cutting edge mobile accessories that mesh perfectly with smartphones and a mobile lifestyle

This is a great networking event for all students, investors and curious minds to check out! This is an only one day event so make sure to drop by the Student Life Centre today!

Last week, Impact was featured in Imprint, the University of Waterloo’s official student newspaper, and in the University of Waterloo alumni newsletter.

Imprint covered the Global Innovation Tournament information session, in which Eva Yung, the chair of Impact Connect, spoke about the competition and presented past examples from previous years.  The GIT creates a different challenge every year, and this year’s challenge is to make saving money fun, while having as much influence as possible.  Click here to read the Imprint article.

The November 2009 issue of the University of Waterloo alumni newsletter features Impact as one of the organizations that were created by Waterloo students.  Click here to read the article.

In addition, The Record and CTV covered the AGFA Health competition that was hosted by Impact Connect at the University of Waterloo.  Check out the article in The Record here, and the CTV story here.