Enactus Wins Three Categories at Central Canada Competition
Enactus Ryerson, the Ted Rogers School of Management-based student entrepreneurship group, enjoyed a strong showing at the Enactus Central Canada competition, winning three categories.
The event, which ran March 10-11 in Mississauga, brought together students from Enactus (external link) university groups to showcase community outreach projects and business ventures to academic and industry leaders.
Enactus Ryerson won three of the four categories in which they competed: the Capital One Financial Education Challenge, the Scotiabank Eco-Living Green Challenge and the Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge. Ryerson was also the runner-up in the fourth category, the TD Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Enactus Ryerson will compete at the national championship in May 2016.
“From the president’s office right down to the faculty level in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy department, there’s this culture of entrepreneurship and innovation at Ryerson,” said Phil Walsh, Chair of Entrepreneurship at TRSM, who helped prepare the team. “Ryerson, being an Ashoka university and having an interest in social entrepreneurship, has been a significant contributor to the success of our Enactus Ryerson team."
The team will now move on to the Enactus Canada national championship, held in Toronto in May, where it will compete in the three categories that it won against universities and colleges from across the country. The winner of the national competition's 17 minute overall team presentation will go on to represent Canada at the Enactus World Cup to be held in Toronto in late September.
In addition, TRSM student Ben Canning was one of two winners of Enactus' John Dobson Foundation competition for student entrepreneurs. He presented his company Farmium, a smart platform for Green Roof Automation that allows building owners to monetize roof space though automated Green Roof Farms
Enactus Ryerson encourages students to create positive social change in their communities through entrepreneurship, with initiatives incorporating the “triple bottom line” of “People, Planet, Profit.” “If you’re joining Enactus, you’re joining because you want to empower individuals in society who normally wouldn’t have the ability to empower themselves,” said Walsh.
For more information on Enactus Ryerson, go to http://www.enactusryerson.ca/.
This story originally appeared in Ryerson Today.