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The 2019 Presentation Idol Final was on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, in the Great Hall. Check out the event photos or video recording.

Presentation Idol 2019 finalists and judges standing on stage in front of a blue backdrop displaying the BCIT logo
Presentation Idol 2019 finalists and judges

Winners

Judges’ Choice Awards

    • First place: Terry Calderbank
    • Second place: Matt Dick
    • Third place: Omar Abade

Judges’ Innovation Award

  • For presentation of a new design: Terry Calderbank

Audience Choice Awards

    • First place: Terry Calderbank
    • Second place: Shawna Zand
    • Third place: Matt Dick

Ecocity Challenge Award presented by Aplin Martin

Judging panel

  • Pirooz Darabi, Fluor
  • Mike Kasuya, AME Group
  • Jennie Moore, BCIT
  • Sunny Ghataurah, AES
  • Rick Fernandes, PCL

2019 finalist presentations

Omar Abade, Changing the World With ITER, Mechanical Engineering

Ary Azez, Rolling Traffic Barriers, Civil Engineering

Tristan Bobin, GPS Art: Using the Road Network as the Canvas, Geographic Information Systems

Terry Calderbank, How to Teach A Robot to Pick Grapes, Electrical Engineering

Cameron Weatherhead, Reaching our Remote Resources, Mining Engineering

Stephen Cyr, Fundamentals of Quantum Computing, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Matt Dick, Digging Deep: Using Big Data and AI for Smarter Mineral Exploration, Mining and Mineral Resource Engineering

Shawna Zand, Diverging Diamond Interchanges, Civil Engineering

Thank you for your support

Presenting schools & sponsors

This event wouldn’t be possible without our presenting schools and sponsors.

Presentation Idol is presented by the School of Computing & Academic Studies, School of Energy, School of Construction & the Environment, and School of Health Sciences. Ecocity Challenge Award presented by Aplin Martin.

AME Group

Fluor

AES

PCL Construction Leaders

Aplin Martin

BCIT Technical Writing Certificate Program

ASTTBC

Association of Consulting Engineers of British Columbia

KD Engineering

Engineers & Geoscientists of British Columbia