Mason Cup winners develop a green mining alternative. A tiny home in Brockville, ON, sits empty. A new scholarship encourages Indigenous pursuits in geoscience. These were the most-read stories in the Daily Media Report in late July.
Mason Cup: Queen’s University has presented the Mason Cup—which annually honours a team of first-year engineering students who have gone above and beyond in addressing a real-world problem—to a team that modelled a segregation process to recover metals from polymetallic nodules.
Tiny home: A tiny home in Brockville, ON, built by at-risk youth sits empty as it awaits for a permanent location. As a pre-fabricated home, it was planned by engineers, and they oversaw the construction and conducted site reviews according to the requirements of the provincial building code. But as a pre-fabricated house without a foundation, it did not require a municipal building permit as it was being built and local municipalities now won’t allow it to be installed on a foundation because it hasn’t been inspected by local building code officers.
New scholarship: A new scholarship has been created in honour of Brian Nadjiwon, a former student of Kwantlen Polytechnic University who had a passion for information technology and geoscience. The scholarship will support and encourage Indigenous participation in the study of geosciences across BC post-secondary institutions.
