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The RHTHYM of Life...

Participant: Chris Johnson and Mike Davey
Business name: RHYTHMworks Industries
Concept: developing easy-to-use software-based tools for the in-home monitoring of patients afflicted by chronic illnesses. Branded under the RHYTHM moniker, these state-of-the-art tools will enable monitoring personnel to instantly obtain and analyze key patient information and be alerted to changes in their condition. The launch product will be an in-home asthma monitoring system called ASTHMARHYTH. More Finalists >

Open Selectively to Premier Canadian Universities

The Wes Nicol Entrepreneurial Awards was endowed in 1997 at Carleton University - the alma mater of founder, Wes Nicol. The program has been carefully expanded since its inaugural year through selective invitation.

Selection process

At present, The Wes Nicol Entrepreneurial Awards is open exclusively to Canadian universities. In the summer and autumn of each year, universities interested in participating submit their applications to the program organizers. Once a school has been approved, they do not need to reapply in subsequent years.

Participating Universities

Today the following fifteen Canadian universities host Local Competitions to select their top three teams for the national Nicol Entrepreneurial award held annually in Ottawa.

Local Schools (3 progress to National)		Regional Schools (3 progress to National)
This year the following eight Canadian universities will host Local Competitions to select their top business plans. The eight top business plans are then sent to Ottawa where the National judges will select the top three teams to compete in the National Nicol Entrepreneurial Award held annually in Ottawa.		Students from the following seven institutions first compete in a local competition on each of their campuses where the top 3 businesses at each school are selected to compete in the Regional Nicol LaunchPad $50K in early April. The top 3 teams from Nicol LaunchPad $50K will then go on to compete at the National Wes Nicol Award competition in Ottawa.
Fred C. Manning School of Business Acadia University business.acadiau.ca		Faculty of Business Brock University www.bus.brocku.ca/
Carleton University www.carleton.ca		Conestoga College www.conestogac.on.ca/
Centre for Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise University of Alberta School of Business www.bus.ualberta.ca/cefe/		University of Guelph www.uoguelph.ca/
Asper School of Business University of Manitoba www.umanitoba.ca/management/		McMaster University www.mcmaster.ca/
School of Management University of Ottawa www.management.uottawa.ca		Wilfrid Laurier University www.wlu.ca/
University of Toronto www.utoronto.ca		The Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology University of Waterloo cbet.uwaterloo.ca/
University of Victoria business.uvic.ca		The University of Western Ontario www.uwo.ca
York University www.yorku.ca