12 non-profits participate in RGD's 6th Designathon in 5 locations across Canada

03/03/20

RGD Designathons took place February 22 and 29 in Moncton, Sudbury, Toronto and Vancouver with 29 Student RGDs, 8 Provisional RGDs and 1 Junior Affiliate Member participating.

RGD Designathons are 12-hour design challenges where design students and recent grads work in teams on real-life design projects for non-profit organizations with senior designers acting as mentors to each team.

Thank you to McKenzie College (Moncton), Digitalist (Vancouver), Design de Plume (Sudbury), Hambly & Woolley (Toronto) and Forge Media + Design (Toronto) for hosting.

Photos by Eric Forest RGD

Thank you to our Mentors for guiding and supporting their teams: Yasemin Cenberoglu and Claudio Afonso (Vancouver), Mélissa Deschênes RGD (Sudbury), and in Toronto: Dominic Ayre RGD, Gilbert Li RGD, Nicola Hamilton RGD, John Furneaux RGD, Stüssy Tschudin RGD and Paul van Dongen RGD

Thank you to the following non-profit organizations for participating:

Small Stage/Movement Enterprise Society, Habitat for Humanity Greater Ottawa, Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival, Friends of High Park Zoo, Anishnawbe Health Foundation, Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, Parachute, Assaulted Women's Helpline, Arab Community Centre, NB Youth Orchestra, United Way GenNext, Codiac Soccer