The 2019 Presentation Idol Final was on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, in the Great Hall. Check out the event photos or video recording.
Winners
Judges’ Choice Awards
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- First place: Terry Calderbank
- Second place: Matt Dick
- Third place: Omar Abade
Judges’ Innovation Award
- For presentation of a new design: Terry Calderbank
Audience Choice Awards
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- First place: Terry Calderbank
- Second place: Shawna Zand
- Third place: Matt Dick
Ecocity Challenge Award presented by Aplin Martin
- For an Ecocity World Summit theme: Matt Dick
Judging panel
- Pirooz Darabi, Fluor
- Mike Kasuya, AME Group
- Jennie Moore, BCIT
- Sunny Ghataurah, AES
- Rick Fernandes, PCL
2019 finalist presentations
Omar Abade, Changing the World With ITER, Mechanical Engineering
Ary Azez, Rolling Traffic Barriers, Civil Engineering
Tristan Bobin, GPS Art: Using the Road Network as the Canvas, Geographic Information Systems
Terry Calderbank, How to Teach A Robot to Pick Grapes, Electrical Engineering
Cameron Weatherhead, Reaching our Remote Resources, Mining Engineering
Stephen Cyr, Fundamentals of Quantum Computing, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Matt Dick, Digging Deep: Using Big Data and AI for Smarter Mineral Exploration, Mining and Mineral Resource Engineering
Shawna Zand, Diverging Diamond Interchanges, Civil Engineering
Thank you for your support
Presenting schools & sponsors
This event wouldn’t be possible without our presenting schools and sponsors.
Presentation Idol is presented by the School of Computing & Academic Studies, School of Energy, School of Construction & the Environment, and School of Health Sciences. Ecocity Challenge Award presented by Aplin Martin.