Month: March 2014

TEDMED LIVE 2014 Coming to Algonquin College

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“What would happen if the whole world came together for one week every year to focus on what’s new and important in health and medicine?”

Algonquin College is about to find out when it hosts TEDMED Live 2014. TEDMED is conference held once a year created by the founders of Ted talks. Continue reading

Algonquin College Breath of Life Campaign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOb30Fc_HlM

In Spring 2014, an interdisciplinary group of students from Algonquin College, Ottawa, will train local birth attendants in newborn resuscitation and work with children and youth on a health and wellness project in the Bunda District, Tanzania. The students will deliver part of the training using an augmented reality application they built themselves with NGRAIN© Augmented Reality. To learn more, visit www.facebook.com/breathoflife2014 or follow the team on Twitter: @BreathOfLife14

March Update

It’s near the end of March.

Whew!… March is one month that always seems to move fast! This is the month where, in additional to our usual tasks, we start planning the summer projects.

It’s too bad that outsiders don’t get a chance to see the behind-the-scenes work we do for the summer projects. It involves a significant amount of ‘intra-preneurship.’ Continue reading