Past i3 Winners

Congratulations to all past winners of the i3 Idea Challenge

2012

First Place: Renterra (Lyndon Lisitza)

Renterra is a web based platform that makes it easier for farmland owners to connect with farmland renters. Website

Second Place: Pulse+ (Caitlyn Olauson and Erin Bershied)

Pulse+ (now known as TerraBar) is a nutritional snack bar that comes from simple ingredients produced by Canadian farmers. It is nut-free, gluten free, and contains no preservatives.

Third Place: Glovely Cleaning Solutions (Benjamin Leis)

Glovely is committed to being a supplier of high quality hand-dishwashing products and making dishwashing a more enjoyable activity. The Glovely is a unique 5-fingered cloth that is more ergonomic and more efficient than competing products. Website

2011

First Place: NitroWave (Chris Ryan, Navdeep Toor, & John Code)

The NitroWave is a newly invented appliance that combines the traditional microwave technology that heats items, with new innovative technology to cool items as well. NitroWave uses controlled liquid nitrogen to safely cool items in a self-sifficient manner that requires no maintenance or refilling.

Second Place: Carley Olivia Photography (Carley Winter)

Carley Olivia Photography offers custom, professional and creative images that capture the essence of life in order to best reflect their clients or their business. By developing relationships, they work with clients to cover family portraits, wedding photos and even small business promotions. Website

Third Place: Neechie Gear (Kendal Netmaker)

Neechie Gear sells men's and ladies 100% cotton t-shirts, hoodies, sweatpants, lanyards, wrist bands and stickers. It is the first clothing company in Canada to create, support and develop Aboriginal youth based sports teams and have sales year-round. Website

2010

1st Place: Envirowood (Matt Ralph, Dawn Gibbons, Carolina Martinez & Mark Lobraico)
A profitable venture that will charge to recycle scrap wood destined for the landfill and turn the scrap into profit generating products. Team members combined engineering, sciences and business to come out on top.

2nd Place: Designs by Kendra (Kendra James)

An elite equestrian apparel custom design company targeted to the influencers of women competing in the horse show industry. Horse show industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and show gears can retail up to $8,000 a piece. Website

3rd Place: Rejuvenate Health & Wellness Centre (Leah Edmonds)

Rejuvenate will provide services from a Registered Dietitian, a Chiropractor, a Registered Massage Therapist, an Acupuncturist, Yoga and Meditation Instructors and a Clinical Psychologist, under one common company and in one location. Complementary medicine is experiencing double digit growth as individuals begin to look at the mind and body connection for better health.

2009

First Place: 3twenty Solutions (Bryan MCCrea, Evan Willoughby, Channing McCorriston, & Matt Harker)
3twenty Solutions is creatively reusing old shipping containers to provide mine site accommodations and affordable homes. Through a well-designed manufacturing process, the containers will be efficiently converted into living spaces that will be shipped to their location using existing infrastructure. Website

Second Place: Eneray Sustainable Structures (John Coode, Delaney Bonish & Andrew Chau)

Eneray Sustainable Structures is a precast infrastructure manufacturing business that uses innovative technologies focusing on short span bridges, architectural and thermally efficient commercial building wall panels, and residential energy efficient structures. Eneray is positioned for cost efficiency, operational quality, and operational life span. Website

Third Place: uProduce Music Technologies (Kurt Dahl)

Remember Choose-Your-Own Adventure books from your childhood? Well imagine that, in music form. uProduce technology will allow music fans to choose - in real time - from alternate versions of various parts of songs, pre-recorded by their favourite artists. The end result: personalized (and paid-for) music, for the Me Generation