Past Winners

In Youth Impact Challenge’s first two years, we received hundreds of innovative, youth-led ideas from diverse teams all across Canada. Here are the teams that took home our Grand Prizes in 2022, 2021 and 2020!

2021

2021 Winner - Social Stream: ConchShell

Wearable American Sign Language translator to improve user independence. Featured in the Toronto Star.

Jin Schofield

Sarvnaz Alemohammad

Sherry Shu

2021 Winner - Environmental: Peko Produce

Vancouver’s first delivery service for imperfect or "peculiar" produce. Featured in the Daily Hive and at TedX UBC.

Sang Le

Arielle Lok

2020 Winner: Voltx

A machine learning product to accelerate the testing time for supercapacitors and batteries. Featured on The Pointer .

Alishba Imran

Shagun Maheshwari

Anna Heer

Past Winners

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2020

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The YIC team would like to acknowledge that our work is done on the ancestral and unceded territory of many indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, also called North America, who have cared for the lands on which we work for time immemorial.