Tech Futures Challenge Team Projects
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2023 Projects
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2022 Projects

CelluCoat – Using recycled fruit waste to develop a bacterial cellulose-based edible, preservative coating for fruits and vegetables

Beetector – DNA molecules that bind to specific targets, to act as an electrochemical biosensor to detect American Foulbrood (AFB)
Project Pitch Showcase Awards - Feb 2022
Awards – Beginner
Best Pitch: CCHS SynBio, Project CRIT – $2,000 award
Runner-up Pitch: Rundle College, Food Flip – $1,500 award
Awards – Advanced
Best Pitch: ULethbridge iGEM – $2,000 award
Runner-up Pitch: Calgary iGEM, Cellucoat – $1,500 award
Project Prototype Showcase Awards - May 2022
Awards – Beginner
- Top Project: Green Earth – $2,500 award
- Top App design: Green Earth – $50 Tutoring Education Centre voucher
- Best Prototype (shared): Green Earth and Siksika HS
- Robotics – $1,000 award ($500 each)
- Best Sustainability: Siksika HS Robotics – $1,000 award
Awards – Advanced
- Top Project: Renert High School – $2,500 award
- Best Sustainability: Renert High School – $1,000 award
- Best Prototype: UCalgary iGEM – $1,000 award
2021 Projects

ULethbridge iGEM – a solution to the issue of blue-green algae in Southern Alberta and around the world

IntelliPark – our app saves drivers time, money, and reduce CO2 emissions leading drivers to open parking spaces

Solaraya – helping underprivileged communities around the world who don’t have access to clean water

Oviita iGEM UCalgary – a sustainable and community-based approach to alleviating Vitamin A deficiency
Project Pitch Showcase Awards - March 2021
Awards – Beginner
- Best Pitch: The Adventioneers – $2,000 award
- Runner-up Pitch: Renert High School – $1,500 award
Awards – Advanced
- Best Pitch: Oviita Calgary iGEM – $2,000 award
- Runner-up Pitch: ULethbridge iGEM – $1,500 award
Project Prototype Showcase Awards - May 2021
- Overall Best Project: The Adventioneers – $3,500 award
- Overall Best Project – Runner Up: Renert High School – $2,500 award
- Mobility Quotient Award for Best Sustainability Project: Lethbridge High School iGEM – 1,000 award
- Mobility Quotient Award for Best Prototype: The Adventioneers – 1,000 award
- Top Arduino Design: IntelliPark – TKSmart – $50 Tutoring Education Centre voucher
- Top Start-Up Program Candidate: Renert High School – Entrepreneurial summer camp at Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation