BCIT’s Grace Soo delivers winning idea for Student Innovation Challenge

Grace Soo was on the Skytrain when she received word about the fate of her 2011 BCIT Student Innovation Challenge submission.

 

“I got a call from the organizer for the contest,” says Soo, a BCIT financial management student. “I was thinking he was going to say, ‘sorry, thanks for trying.””

But the complete opposite happened. Her idea about a delivery service using zero-emission cargo tricycles called SHIFT beat out nearly 50 submissions to win the Challenge and pocket the $5,000 cash grand prize.

Read the rest of the article, by Gerald Narciso, on the Applied Research blog.

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