Meet the teams for the ECCE App Challenge 2026

This year, a total of 26 teams from ECCE schools across Canada completed the App Challenge.

The source code and documentation for each team has been added to the GitHub repository for the challenge. Below you will find a profile for each of this year's teams, along with details about the team members and the apps that they created. Included with each profile is a video presentation created by the team to promote and demonstrate their app, and links are provided to access live demonstrations of their applications.

British Columbia Institute of Technology

• Emissions Impossible | Leo Chaulk, Savanna Yan, Emily Klaassen
• Pedal to the Metal | Ethan Lo, Brendan Kelly, Jon Atienza
• Team SET | Sreekanth Satheesh, Esha Karim, Tim Kong

Centre of Geographic Sciences, NSCC

• Challenge Expected | Brad Redden, Tyler Veinot, Yifan Zuo
• Lay Down the Lawrencetown | Samantha Mair, Glenn Gentil, Adam Nearing
• Mission GeoPossible | Ilinca Carbureanu, Aiden Callfas, Catherine Sedge

Dalhousie University

• Halifax Green Routes | Gabrielle Barton, Julia MacFarlane, Mo Li
• The Sea Cadets | Brianna Shannon, Nelene Silva, Polina Afanasyeva

McMaster University

• Light Rail Transit Oracle | Haoran Xu, Sihui He, Dason Wang
• MACorridors | Amber Chanthavong, Alex Furukawa, Nolyn Lakhanpal
• Mapping Marauders | Skyler Grasley, Zehui Yin, Sarah Paquin

Simon Fraser University

• Gondola Guys Environmental Zone | Gus Schiele, Laurence Magenga, Alex Brun

University of New Brunswick

• UNB GeoNavigators | Somtochukwu Nwachukwu, Muhammad Waleed

University of Toronto (Mississauga)

• GeoTrio | Jad El Asmar, Blaeden Kohout, Hari Patel
• GridTraveler | Frances Leung, Congping Li, Devin Wu
• Sailors | Anjali Khan, Hardik Narkhede, William Mitchell

University of Toronto (Scarborough)

• FILE NOT FOUND | Min Tang (Maggie) Zhou, Odna Adiyatumur, Laurence Jang

University of Toronto (St. George)

• ArcAngels | Emmett Young, Juliette Adams Fong, Samantha Kyle
• Green Corridor Crew | Donique Whylly, Qiyu Wang, Duncan Wan

University of Waterloo

• Dubious Undergrad Bikers | Matthew Woodward, Julianne Ho, Mohan Mahbaz
• Let's Getis-bread Gi | Liam Taylor, Lucia Lee
• Lucky Duckies | Jessica Su, Arjun Santhosh, Zekiel Foncardas  

Western University

• ChargeFinder Vancouver | Nicolas Chen, Samantha Sharp, Angelica Simone
• EquiTransit Champions | Chrishma Perera, Christopher Johnson
• Goose on The Loose | Oliver Baker, Tyson Hamilton, Connor Chataway
• Sustainable Mustangs | Chang (Maggie) Zhang, Elefteria Emile Kollias, Olivia Madison Mirowski