Past Events

Workshop #5 will focus on “Getting ideas out of your head – the power of the storyboard”. The Prototype stage of the design thinking process pushes problems solvers to see their idea evolve rapidly through the use of a specific prototyping tool: storyboards. Storyboards are quick, easy and cheap to produce. They can be thought of as the earliest physical manifestation of your idea. The goal is to maximize learning early in the process to avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes…

Shiftkey Labs and Analyze Re are planning an exciting design challenge aimed at students with a keen interest in ML, and micro services. The goal is for you and your team to hack together a working proof-of-concept/prototype for one of the presented design challenges unveiled at the start of the event. You will have approximately 24 hours to conceptualize, model, create, and demo your solution! Meals, snacks and hot/cold beverages will be provided throughout the event to keep you fuelled…

Note: This session has been cancelled. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Learn to represent yourself and your ideas more effectively. Through a series of exercises, you will learn methods to present and communicate effectively and persuasively. We will discuss how to project a confident image, organizing your content for impact, and creating a stronger connection with your listeners so that they can better hear, understand and retain your message. We will also discuss how to better understand…

Workshop #6 of the Sandbox Discover program will focus on “Prototyping and Experimentation”. We’ll continue with the prototyping stage of design thinking and move on to the final stage of the process – the testing stage. This week we will concentrate on refining prototypes with the learning we gained last week and also spend some time experimenting/testing the prototype with users. The goal is not to defend your prototype but to observe how your user(s) interact with it. Based on this new…

The final design challenge is now being merged with the Arts-Tech Fusion Hackathon on Mar 23-24 (no design challenge on Wed, Mar 20th). If you have any questions on how this might impact the Sandbox Passport or the Design Challenge Certificate, please contact us. The final Sandbox Discover program workshop this semester is aimed at students who have participated in the majority of the program workshops. The goal is to apply program knowledge to solve a problem to a specific design…

We are pairing computer science students and non-computer science students together for the ultimate, cross-disciplinary, weekend-long event! From Saturday to Sunday, you and a partner will work together to create an idea that combines technology with the arts. Think music, history, visual arts, gender studies, theatre, creative writing - anything you want! No coding experience required! Over the weekend, we will meet guest speakers who combine arts with technology in their workplace every day. Take advantage of what they have…