Graduates
Nora Trask with Cloudberry Forest School: an outdoor school that offers children regular and repeated access to natural woodlands with the support of highly qualified teachers.
- In the Gazette:
Wendy Reid-Fairhurst with CohousingNL: developing a new model for modern housing: shared housing communities for increased social connections, downsized living and environmental sustainability.
- In the Gazette:
Evan Burry with Stormy Shore: aims to preserve culture and history with engaging forms of digital media. The first focus is on the development of a video game based on the Newfoundland Regiment during the Second World War.
- In the Gazette:
Mandy Penney with #RisingYouthPreneur: aims to reduce unemployment and poverty rates among youth with disabilities while increasing the number of young entrepreneurs with disabilities and the number of accessible businesses.
- In the Gazette: ‘Change-agents’
- In the Gazette: ‘Empowering communities’
Marian Jimenez Ojeda and Garrett Melee with Howby: aims to provide a safe and long-lasting home to dogs through value-added training while positively influencing the well-being of people with mental health conditions.
Jessica Spooner with ReWild Wellness: fighting climate change through nature-based programs that help people reconnect to the natural world. It focuses on women, particularly those in vulnerable situations, and offers hiking, life coaching, forest therapy, mood walks and all-inclusive backpacking adventures.
Trevor Bessette with Recycle on the Rock: fighting to decrease plastic pollution in Newfoundland and to educate citizens in the process. The goal is to establish a large network of community drop-off points that enable Newfoundlanders to easily recycle common waste plastics that are currently overlooked by waste management systems
Taejha Young with Renewabli Waste Solutions: aims to create consumer-based waste disposal solutions that are both zero-waste and climate-neutral to up-cycle household food waste into energy.