Cisco awards $10K for new Pan-Ambassadors application

OAKVILLE, ON - Cisco Canada has awarded $10,000 to four Sheridan College students for devising an innovative application to be used during the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games (TORONTO 2015). The winning team, all students from Sheridan’s post graduate certificate program in interactive multimedia, was announced after an all-day ‘Idea-A-Thon’ event held last week at Sheridan’s Oakville campus. Team ‘Fantastic Four’, consisting of students Chau Le, Yee Ting Lee, Leena Salem and Jason Smith, beat out eight other student groups with their idea for a Pan-Ambassadors geo-tracking application that will enable non-English-speaking visitors to TORONTO 2015 to connect in real-time...