Shad Brings Out Best in Teens

You wouldn’t expect to see high school students hard at work in classes on a hot July day. But for this group of young SHAD program participants, the robotics lab on University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus is exactly where they want to be.

Initially founded in 1980, SHAD brings together students who are passionate about STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) for a

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Jobs: Dash Hudson Account Exec

Dash Hudson is continuing to expand its staff, and today we’re highlighting an opening at the social media analytics company for an account executive.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson has created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps its corporate clients to create and distribute photos and video, then analyze their impact. The system is an integrated solution to predict, measure, and enhance

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Helping Carers of the Elderly

After focusing on providing dementia care training and services to staff in care homes, consulting company Person Centred Universe is turning its attention to supporting those who care for dementia sufferers in private settings like family residences.

Company founders Ashley King and Daphne Noonan hope their Fredericton-based venture will improve care and lessen the loneliness of caregivers, who

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East Coast Troop at StartupFest

On Thursday, 55 entrepreneurs from Atlantic Canada arrived at Montreal StartupFest on a luxury charter bus, what the Taskforce Fredericton Startup Network is calling the East Coast Caravan.

The Taskforce Fredericton Startup Network worked with regional partners such as Planet Hatch, Ignite Fredericton and Enterprise Saint John to send the 55 entrepreneurs from across the region to StartupFest.

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Mariner Aims To Improve 28% Growth

Craig Storey has just taken over international sales at Atlantic Canada’s most influential tech company, Saint John-based Mariner, and he’s not satisfied with its 28-per-cent revenue growth in 2016.

Until recently, Storey was the CEO of Shift Energy, the Mariner subsidiary that provides automated energy controls to larger complexes. In the last six months, Shift has been integrated into the main

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Vish, Porpoise Pitch at FounderFuel

Vish Salon Tech and Porpoise, two emerging Atlantic Canadian startups, presented at the FounderFuel Spring 2017 Demo Day in Montreal this week, which coincided with the city’s massive Startup Festival.

Pitching before a roomful of investors and tech enthusiasts, the two companies told of the traction they had gained since entering the Montreal accelerator earlier in the year. You can find video

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Propel ICT Prepares for Fall Cohort

Propel ICT, the regional IT accelerator, is now accepting applications for its 2017 Fall Accelerator and will hold information sessions across the region for people interested in applying.

The one-hour sessions are intended to tell prospective participants which program is best suited to accelerate their startup, and the outcomes they can expect to see throughout the accelerator.

The

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Moncton’s New Social Venture Project

Members of the Greater Moncton business community have launched a new initiative featuring an accelerator and funding vehicle to encourage the development of more social enterprises in the area.

Social enterprises are businesses created to further a social purpose, or solve a social problem, in a financially sustainable way.

Millennials comprise the biggest generation in the Canadian workforce

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Disrupting the Market for Graphene

When Mo AlGermozi and Marciel Gaier manned their booth at the recent Atlantic Venture Forum, they handed all visitors a three-inch piece of black, plastic-like material and challenged them to break it.

It was graphene, a revolutionary new material that the two entrepreneurs are now producing in commercial quantities at their lab at Dalhousie University. They have discovered a new, economical way

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