Navig8 Smart Glasses
Glasses that use computer vision and vibrational patterns to help visually impaired individuals safely detect and navigate hazards in urban environments.
Franco-gardien.nes
An inclusive, scalable initiative that equips bilingual youth with key certifications and connects them with francophone families to deliver safe, culturally relevant childcare—strengthening early language transmission, youth employability, and community vitality in minority language settings.
Find Your Way Database
A comprehensive database that provides fast, anonymous, and accessible support for at-risk and unhoused youth by sourcing local programs that meet their individual needs.
Sense the Way
Geometric tactile wall pathways installed in homes for the blind, enabling residents to navigate unfamiliar spaces using touch-based wayfinding.
SwimX
SwimX provides free swimming lessons to newcomers, fostering swimming skills, confidence, and safety while promoting an inclusive environment for all.
Creators of Tomorrow – Creating for Elderly Project
Creators of Tomorrow develops gamified interventions to support independent care for seniors facing health challenges by adapting memory games and developing assistive technology.
Anecdota
A learning resource that adapts fairytales into learning modules for neurodivergent youth, with each module focusing on improving executive functioning and social cognition skills.
As I See It
This innovation is an app that simulates how people with different eye conditions see the world and educates users through experiential learning.
Community Lynx
A community recycling initiative that collects, cleans and delivers unclaimed items from over 18 Lost and Found Centres in Halifax, and redistributes them at no cost to newcomers.
Youth Tutoring Project
This initiative offers free, high-quality tutoring to K–8 students to address educational inequities worsened by COVID-19 and combat broader education inequality.