Digital Nova Scotia is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to growing and developing Nova Scotia’s digital technologies industry by facilitating connections, providing professional development and capacity-building opportunities, and promoting the digital sector. Digital Nova Scotia supports the tech sector as it continues to grow, evolve, and thrive. As part of this work, Digital Nova Scotia aims […]

Spot application of pesticide has economic and environmental benefits. To enable a real-time spraying, the timing of actuation after detecting the pest should be precise to enable hitting the target. One issue in spraying using wide booms is the need to place cameras on the boom itself to avoid possible costly mechanical modifications. As such, […]

This project will result in an online site showcasing Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre’s archives. These archives include historic materials such as programs, promotional materials, promptbooks, and other theatrical ephemera. Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre is a bastion of rural Nova Scotia theatre. This digital archive will make these materials available to the community and to researchers: […]

The primary goals of the Events and Volunteer Program Innovation Project are to increase our capacity to run excellent and successful fundraising events, and to rebuild our volunteer program to be a well-oiled machine as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. There are dozens of people every month who apply to volunteer at EAC; we […]

This project aims to grow capacity in the Atlantic region for jewellery making and manufacture. Currently, a significant amount of jewellery and metal work is sent to other provinces or internationally. The intern and partners will work to engage local industry players to understand the scope of work they are doing, build capacity understanding in […]

The project will pursue research that evaluates the potential benefits/ consequences of implementing eco-certification programs in Indigenous fisheries as an approach to improve the benefits Indigenous fish harvesters can obtain from their Treaty rights and/or commercial fisheries. In New Zealand, Maori scholars at theTe Kotahi and Ngai Tahu Research Centre are currently working with Maori […]

Cumberland County is located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, close to the New Brunswick border. Cumberland County is made up of the Municipality of the County of Cumberland, two incorporated towns (Amherst and Oxford) and two Villages (Pugwash and River Hebert). According to Statistics Canada (2022) the population of Cumberland County, as of […]

EastCann, a small group of legacy cannabis growers, uses nitrogen packages for postharvest storage of dried cannabis. There is concern that nitrogen packaging adversely affects volatile terpenes and cannibinoids, each of which are important to cannabis products. This project will examine postharvest changes in terpenes and cannabinoids over time in nitrogen packaging compared to ambient […]

The motivation for our project is to address the growing concern about construction waste and its environmental impact. By finding efficient and environmentally friendly recycling methods for composite construction, we can reduce waste generation, conserve resources, and minimize the construction industry’s carbon footprint. Our approach involves conducting technical, environmental, and economic assessments to identify the […]

Atlantic Business Express is looking at bring the service robots to Canada, starting in Nova Scotia through working with Dalhousie University. Many commercial robots that the company currently own, do not offer open architecture integration with new modules and only provide an interface which is not compatible with many devices for further development. The objective […]

Forrest Green, in collaboration with Saint Mary’s University, will work with the intern to successfully develop and implement new web solutions and module for Police Services across the country. The intern will work on innovative dashboards to support crime trends and crime data (external) as well as aggregated officer data for use of system analysis […]

Laxlife Inc. is a company that offers instructional apps for various sports, including lacrosse, hockey, basketball, and soccer. Laxlife aims to scale up its operations in Canada. This project aims to help Laxlife Inc. increase its market share and achieve long-term success by developing product concepts and implementing an effective marketing strategy. This project will […]