Projects
Project BITS
Focuses on improving financial literacy within the Toronto Metropolitan student community. Through various workshops, students can learn how to invest, file taxes, and save money along with other finance basics. While the financial world can be overwhelming, these events make dealing with money more accessible to students.
Accomplishments:
49 Workshops
4,000+ attendees
300+ certificates
Project SMU
An entrepreneurial program that helps students develop and scale their businesses. They host a new venture competition where two TRSM students can win $25,000 each and have recently begun a mentorship program for high school students to turn their interests into businesses.
Accomplishments:
+65 events
Building the world’s #1 University-based Business Incubator (DMZ)
National Top 5 Team, ACE National Exposition 2022
Project Fungi For You
Create and sell bulk growing materials to grow an easy at-home mushroom farm while aiming to inform the nutritional benefits of mushrooms.
Achievements:
Developed mushroom substrate and grains with reliable resources
Made in Canada, the facility pasteurizes 300LB and sterilizes 150LB a day
Educates and informs the community about the endless possibilities of mushrooms
Project Greenologii
Creating a polymer with potato starch replicable to plastic, aiming to reduce food waste and single use plastics
Achievements:
Created a community dedicated to learning about sustainability
Developed starch based material as a plastic alternative
The Shepreneur Project
International entrepreneurial program meant to empower future female entrepreneurs and give them the tools and skills to drive them to success.
Achievements:
Distributed $1,500 in business materials to support participant businesses
Educated 17 women in Mexico and the Dominican Republic on the foundation entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and mental health
