Project Overview

Campus Food Systems

This project’s vision is to mitigate food insecurity within the UofT community with the following approach:

RESEARCH: Conducting a study to determine the root causes of food insecurity within the undergraduate UofT community and identify potential solutions.
PARTNERSHIPS: Through partnerships with external clubs, organizations, professors, and any other potential partners, CFS hopes to host joint events, exchange knowledge, and receive support from others.
EVENTS: In person events and virtual tutorials will be held to share information, teach important skills, and make immediate impact.
AWARENESS: Creating and managing the CFS Resource Hub, aiming to share content that can promote food security within the community.

3D Printing Prosthetics and Accessibility Devices

Reducing the barriers to obtaining prosthetics. Enabling the Future and Nia Technologies in their missions to make prosthetics more accessible via 3D printing.

CGEN AQUALENS App Development

Develop an app integrating CGENs water quality assessment tool to enable the tool to be used by the local communities in Mexico while growing CGENs water assessment database.

Walkable Cities

RESEARCH: Identifying obstacles that students at the St. George campus face everyday which hinder their mobility on campus. Using the information we gather, we aim to identify specific policies (zoning laws, street design methods, speed limits, bike/bus lanes etc.) that contribute to the identified obstacles.
ADVOCACY: Pushing for appropriate changes to policies, by working with existing campaigns and city officials. We host events where members can get involved in learning and advocacy by hearing from guest speakers.

Hack Without Borders

Hack Without Borders is a 2 day event that will provide university students the opportunity to participate in an entry-level hackathon centered around a local and/or global development issue with networking workshops.
On the first day, students will have the opportunity to listen to speakers surrounding the case study topics, and participate in a networking session with their peers, faculty, and industry professionals. The rest of the first day and the entire second day will be dedicated to working on a solution to the hackathon topic. Students will present their findings and proposed solutions through a presentation and demonstration in front of a panel of invited judges.

Water Filtration for Indigenous Communities

Supporting a startup in researching water quality issues in indigenous communities and developing a prototype for a large scale water filtration solution.

Social Change & Youth Leadership
Conference (SCYLC)

The Social Change and Youth Leadership Conference (SCYLC) is a two-day conference for high school students in the GTA, focusing on awareness of global development and critical engineering thinking skills.

Workshops are designed to increase students’ awareness and knowledge of current issues, and expose them to engineering thinking and designing.
Features professors, working professionals, and guests.
Knowledge acquired through workshops and keynote speakers is applied by attendees through a case competition at the end.

Community Garden

This project was founded in 2022 to address food insecurity in the U of T community. The team will grow food in container gardens on the UofT St. George campus, and share it with the garden and UofT community. As access to fresh produce is an issue faced by many experiencing food insecurity, the community garden intends to help alleviate the impact of this issue in the short term by supplementing and distributing produce with CFS. To address some of the systemic barriers that impact people’s ability to grow their own produce, the community garden project team organizes and facilitates learning sessions related to growing and cultivating food.

Innomasters

Innomasters is a semester-long mentorship initiative that introduces engineering design concepts to high school students through 6 regular weekend workshops.
Through a series of presentations, speakers, and activities, students will be taught how to apply the engineering design process to solve issues within a chosen theme or category. These issues can include anything from finding a way to help visually impaired people to creating an efficient trash collecting system! Student teams will then have the opportunity to work on a small design project and present their work in a design showcase at the end of the workshops!

Garden Watering System

Design and implement an autonomous watering system for the community garden to better support the plants through scientific measurement and reduce required volunteer labor. More informed care of the garden will more responsibly use resources.

EWBeyond

EWBeyond is a semester-long initiative that aims to equip high school students with the leadership skills to actively address social issues through 6 regular weekend workshops.
Through presentations, guest speakers, and activities, students will learn from existing leaders, first-hand experiences, and relevant initiative examples to develop their own leadership and team skills. Students will have the opportunity to create their own mini initiative targeting a social issue within a chosen category. EWBeyond integrates a series of guest speakers and workshops that focus on teaching students leadership skills and organizational methods required to work in a team for a project. Students will have the opportunity to display their work during a design showcase at the end of the workshops!

Cybertalks

Bi-weekly workshops focused on the intersection of technology and social justice (cyberethics, cybersecurity, etc.) with guest speakers and engaging learning sessions.

Indigenous Reconciliation (IR)

Organizing learning sessions with collaborators throughout the academic year with a focus on matters of Indigenous justice, recognition, and reconciliation.