As Seen in the Toronto Star
By: Louise Brown; Education Reporter
Go ahead — nod off on your train ride home. Your smart phone will sound the alarm as you pull into your station so you don’t sleep to the end of the line … again.
Or so a new mobile application being developed at Ryerson University promises [...]
The bright ideas of Ted Rogers School of Management students have earned them top awards at a recent competition.
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Ryerson were big winners at the 2010 Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Central Canada Regional Exposition, winning two of three challenges and finishing second in the other. The ACE event is an annual [...]
Every dollar counts.
Lessons like that – which might have helped this credit-dependent generation had they learned them early – are being taught to a lucky few in high schools by an enterprising group of Ryerson University business and marketing students.
$tart $mart, a program created and implemented by the university students volunteering with a charity, gives [...]
Students: the bell tolls for thee—the school bell, that is. The back to school countdown is on, and while students across the GTA psych themselves up for another academic year, faculty and staff at Ryerson University are busily preparing for them. Summer may be winding down, but fall is revving up and Ryerson has plenty of new things in store for the ‘09/’10 academic year.
Here’s a look at the highlights:
Ryerson Mobile Applications (R mobile)
Ryerson mobile applications are being developed by a multi-disciplinary team of student and faculty representatives from the Library, Computing and Communications Services, Department of Computer Science (Ryerson Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Lab) and Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE). Grouped under the banner “R mobile,” the following mobile phone apps have been developed in response to student need: campus maps, campus directory, news and events, student schedules, booking study rooms, finding available computers on campus, and accessing the library catalogue.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief
Stan Beardy, together with POA Educational Foundation Chairman Aditya Jha, is
pleased to announce today the eight NAN participants and mentor organizations
for Project Beyshick 2009 – a unique mentoring program that pairs NAN First
Nation entrepreneurs with mentors from the Toronto business community.
“The skills these participants will develop by working one-on-one with
mentors in the Toronto business community will be invaluable when they return
home to set out on their own business ventures in their home First Nations,”
said Beardy.
Developed by POA Educational Foundation and NAN in 2005, Project Beyshick
is a one-week job-shadowing program focused on entrepreneurship among First
Nation youth (ages 21-35) within NAN territory. Successful program candidates
participate in training programs from Dale Carnegie and Ryerson University
Business School to gain valuable practical business experience. Participants
gain hands on experience job-shadowing senior level business executives and
successful entrepreneurs in areas of their interest. Previous participants
have gained valuable work and life experiences, and made significant progress
towards their entrepreneurial goals.