
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.