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E-Sports and the creation of the Queen’s gaming culture

Written on January 31, 2020. Posted in Lifestyle, Student Life.

Imagine: It’s the height of exam season. Stauffer Library is packed with students, and desks are covered in cyclones of test papers, textbooks, and lecture notes. The tension in the buildings is palpable, though it’s silent as everyone crams for upcoming exams. Outside, snow lines the same roads that...

Queen’s students to travel to Dubai to compete for Hult Prize

Written on January 12, 2018. Posted in News.

This March, a group of Queen’s undergraduate students will travel to Dubai for the regional finals of the Hult Prize — a competition that asks teams to present a solution to a global problem for a chance to win $1 million. The successful team includes team captain Karina Bland, Sci ‘18 and members...

Pitch, please!

Written on March 10, 2017. Posted in Arts.

A full house, seven teams, all aca-armed with nothing but their voices and a passion for singing. This year’s annual a capella competition had all the ingredients for a great show. A capella has gained popularity in recent years thanks to Internet sensation Pentatonix and cinematic masterpiece, Pitch...

Refugee-focused start-up vies for $1 million

Written on March 11, 2016. Posted in News.

This weekend, four Queen’s students will be competing in London, England, to win a million dollars for their refugee-focused online business. The Hult Prize Foundation, a start-up accelerator for university-level entrepreneurs, addresses a different social problem each year. The 2015 winners, Playcares,...

Students seek to make campus safer with new mobile app

Written on August 6, 2015. Posted in News.

Four Queen’s students have developed an app with the hopes of making campus a safer place at night. The app, called Walkly — formerly known as WalkSafe — tracks an individual’s location as they travel from one destination to another to allow a “trusted network” of friends and family to ensure they...

A craving for competition

Written on January 9, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

Whether we strive to be the smartest, the fastest or the beer pong champion, it can be a rare thing to find oneself in a social context completely devoid of any contest. Most of us can’t even recall having been to a house party that didn’t at some point feature a chance to prove your superiority...

Savvy students head to Toronto

Written on January 17, 2012. Posted in News.

The Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition is moving to Toronto for the first time on Thursday. Now in its 24th year, the executive of the annual undergraduate business competition opted to take it out of Kingston so it would grow. “We’d been in Kingston since we started, we knew all the venues,...

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E-Sports and the creation of the Queen’s gaming culture

Queen’s students to travel to Dubai to compete for Hult Prize

Pitch, please!

Refugee-focused start-up vies for $1 million

Students seek to make campus safer with new mobile app

A craving for competition

Savvy students head to Toronto

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