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Mac alumni win Homegrown Innovation Challenge

Published: 20 October 2022

Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertité, Ophelia Sarakinis (FMT’19) and Phillip Rosenbaum (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’19, MSc.’21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a “six-year, $33-million initiative from the Weston Family Foundation to future-proof food production in Canada.â€

The project is led by Professor Trevor Charles of the University of Waterloo, with colleagues from À¦°óSMÉçÇø (Bioresource Engineering Professors Shangpeng Sun, Benjamin Goldstein, Mark Lefsrud ) and the École de technologie supérieure.

Read about the project in the .

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