First-year students in U of T Engineering are stepping up to take on some of the Greater Toronto Area’s most urgent issues, from redesigning naloxone kits used to treat overdoses, to improving hospital waiting rooms.

This Friday, April 13, the students are showcasing their engineering solutions to some of the GTA’s persistent problems with a wide variety of prototypes, renderings, and more.

The event is the finale of Praxis, a unique course from U of T’s Engineering Science program. The course challenges students to collaborate with communities, agencies and companies across the GTA to find new ways of improving the city.