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Mention of the Let's Talk Science All Science Challenge is taking place at the MaRS Centre, May 19. All Science Challenge - a science quiz competition for Grade 6, 7 and 8 students from over 15 schools in the greater Toronto area. Designed by students for students, it's a fun-filled day of competition and camaraderie that's part of a nationwide program to excite and inspire the next generation of scientists.

Grade 12 students from St. Elizabeth Catholic High School won first place prize in the 2009 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC) in the Greater Toronto region. These students' research demonstrated that high frequency ultrasound could be used to test the effectiveness of a cancer therapy drug by detecting cell death in leukemia cells. MaRS is one of the Regional competition sponsors.

Grade 12 students from St. Elizabeth Catholic High School won first place prize in the 2009 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC) in the Greater Toronto region. These students' research demonstrated that high frequency ultrasound could be used to test the effectiveness of a cancer therapy drug by detecting cell death in leukemia cells. MaRS is one of the Regional competition sponsors. April 15, 2009

ACE is a national charitable organization that is teaching and igniting young Canadians to create brighter futures for themselves and their communities. Working in partnership with business and higher education, ACE delivers experience-based programming that allows university and college students to move beyond the traditional path of post-secondary education. These students are challenged to address economic, social and environmental issues in their own entrepreneurial ventures and in their communities. ACE currently delivers two programs on over 50 university and college campuses across Canada with the involvement of over 1,700 student leaders and student entrepreneurs.

Vincent Cheung, owner of Shape Collage Inc. and full time PhD student at the University of Toronto, has been named the 2010 Student Entrepreneur Regional Champion by national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and proud program supporter, CIBC.

Vincent Cheung of Shape Collage, a MaRS client, won the student entrepreneur national champion at the 2010 Student Entrepreneur National Competition, held in Calgary May 12.

MaRS Associate, Patrick Cheung wins third place in Business Week's Top 20 Ideas for a Better MBA. His idea: create a cross-functional entrepreneurship program where MBA students form teams with graduate students from other faculties around them (software engineers, design students, etc) to create a new venture.

Mention that Multimedia students from Sherian are being displayed at the Ontario Premier's Innovation Awards ceremony on May 15th at MaRS in Toronto.

Mention that Multimedia students from Sherian are being displayed at the Ontario Premier's Innovation Awards ceremony on May 15th at MaRS in Toronto. May 20, 2009

University of Toronto remodelled its pension and endowment fund - and then lost $1.5-billion last year. University of Toronto Asset Management runs $2.8-billion of staff pensions and $1.5-billion of endowments, which traditionally produces tens of millions of dollars annually for student aid and faculty posts.runs $2.8-billion of staff pensions and $1.5-billion of endowments, which traditionally produces tens of millions of dollars annually for student aid and faculty posts. Small mention of UTAM at MaRS.

The Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership was launched in 2009. The goal of this initiative is to bring students together together with experts from the science and business sectors, with the ultimate goal of better identifying and commercializing health technologies.Dr. Kellie Leitch, a Hospital for Sick Children orthopedic surgeon, is the first executive director of the centre, which is based at Western. Sept 10, 2009

Vincent Cheung of Shape Collage, a MaRS client, has been named the 2010 student entrepreneur Ontario champion and regional champion for Ontario and Quebec by the national charitable organization Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE). Read this online discussion with him on the Globe and Mail about being a student entrepreneur.

Vincent Cheung is a recipient of the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneur (ACE) 2010 National Student Champion 2010. Cheung had no business background till he attended MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 course.

Metro features uBuddy, a MaRS client whose social media product just launched. uBuddy, based at the University of Toronto, allows students to facilitate note-sharing, meetings and course discussions online.

The Next 36 is Canada's Entrepreneurial Initiative. According to Mark Zimmerman, MaRS' Senior ICE Advisor, "the Next 36 is a student spin off of the provincially and corporately backed MaRS Centre for Innovation, if you will, which backs over 1200 startups, 140 of which are mobile."

A new partnership between ClevrU and NewMindsets, facilitated by MaRS Innovation and York University's commercialization office, will establish second-generation online learning standards for millions of students worldwide.

Accolades for MaRS ICT client OpenFile from Wayne MacPhail, a journalism prof and general news guru. He uses OpenFile with his students and says OpenFile is hyperlocal, fully engaging communities in their own coverage.

2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada (SBCC) is a national biotechnology research competition that inspires students to pursue a career in biotechnology. The event took place at the MaRS Centre on April 19th.

Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District was one of the speakers at the THINK Conference. "The Honourable Brad Duguid, Ontario's Minister of Economic Development and Innovation, presented the ORION Leadership awards on April 16th to high school student Marshall Zhang, John Helliker of Sheridan College and University of Toronto professor Dr. Shana Kelley." 

Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada is a biotech competition where high school students are mentored by local scientists. MaRS helps create successful global businesses from Canada's science, technology and social innovation.

MaRS Discovery District is offering a one-week boot camp for students between the ages of 13 and 15, where they will invent and test original business ideas and learn skills to help them succeed in business. The program is called "MaRS Future Leaders."

MaRS's launched a Future Leaders Series this summer which offered 20 students between the ages of 13 and 15 the chance to experience the life of a "MaRS-ian entrepreneur."  The participants were provided an opportunity to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges that their business model was feasible and to demonstrate how they planned to use the $1,000 of prize money up for grabs.