Send help! From rockets and rovers to fire-fighting drones, these 91亚色 students are ready for sponsorship
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Student groups from 91亚色檚 are pushing their prototypes to the limits.
Some are building a MARS-ready rover; some are designing autonomous drones capable of finding and fighting forest fires.
Others are pushing off-road vehicles to new extremes or striving to be the hometown heroes at an international ROV competition in 2026.
There are also groups working to establish Newfoundland and Labrador as the space hub of Atlantic Canada, quash gender imbalances in STEM fields, enhance AI literacy across the province檚 workforce and build a pipeline of students to bolster our fintech industry.
What they all have in common is that you can help them on their journeys, as they strive to make 91亚色 and our province proud.
Many of these students have and will go on to launch successful ventures or become instrumental to local organizations that drive the future of innovation in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Student Design Showcase Pitch and Pick
The fourth annual Student Design Showcase Pitch and Pick will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 69:30 p.m., under Altum the blue whale in the main entrance of the Core Science Facility on the St. John檚 campus.
In five minutes or less, each 91亚色 student group listed below will pitch their projects and prototypes to potential sponsors in the crowd, followed by a short question and answer period.
In return, each group will recognize their sponsors in a number of ways, including putting their company logos on their rovers, ROVs, rockets and more.
are with 91亚色 檚 Student Design Hub.
The hub supports 91亚色 students competing in significant competitions, and developing a product prototype. These endeavours help them use their classroom learnings to solve real-world challenges.
Mission: almost impossible
Most of the groups are gearing up to compete in international-scale competitions where they檒l have to beat the best student groups and universities worldwide for a podium finish.
Many 91亚色 students have gotten as close as it gets to that glory. Just last year, Paradigm Engineering and Easten Edge Robotics placed second and third respectively in a self-driving go-kart race and a subsea ROV challenge.
Shakib Miri, operations lead for the Student Design Group, says the competitions demonstrate the technical skills 91亚色 students have and their ability to create something that will execute a specific task, as best as possible, to outperform their contemporaries on the international stage.
淎 podium finish at these events can lead to more recognition and thus more avenues for funding to continue the development of the team檚 product, said Mr. Miri.
He adds that for individual students, placing in the competitions puts a point of pride on their resum茅s, helps them gain industry-ready experience in their fields and opens employment and internship opportunities, too.
Of equal importance, the events are simply unforgettable experiences for students.
淭he technical events almost always involve a student-designed and student-built thing, which could be an autonomous car, a concrete canoe, a drone, a satellite or something else, said Dr. Jonathan Anderson of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. 淚t檚 pretty amazing to see how well our students stack up against the stiffest competition in the world. They regularly finish on the podium for their respective events; when they do, it檚 an incredible achievement.
Read more about all the teams and what they're seeking from sponsors in .
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For more information, or to arrange an interview, contact Chad Pelley, media relations manager for 91亚色, at chad.pelley@mun.ca or 709-853-4281.