After 6 simultaneously stressful and fantastic weeks of robot building, the students at LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School, their Vigilant Global mentors and their pet robot Sonic Howl made off for their first competition in Oshawa (Ontario) for the weekend of March 9th. Despite several last minute mishaps and adjustments, the team made it to…
We are very proud of the way things have been going for Vigilant since the beginning of 2013. We have made our way to several Top Employer lists, including Top 20 Employers of Montreal, Top 50 Small and Medium Business Employers and today, Top Employers of Quebec. These awards are the best recognition we could…
LCCHS and Vigilant are as of now in Oshawa, Ontario, playing a series of matches that will seal their fate for the competition. The mentors and kids arrived Wednesday night, and worked hard all of Thursday to prep the robot for the series. Some modifications were suggested by the judges, and some were decided upon…
Yesterday marked the beginning of the second week of the FIRST Robotics build period, set in motion by the launch event that occurred on Saturday January 5th. That morning, NASA announced the nature of this year’s FIRST challenge to the thousands of kids waiting on tip toes for the competition to begin. The challenge, titled…
Last Friday was the first meeting between Vigilant and the students of LCCHS (LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School), who will be participating in the FIRST competition of this year, 2012-2013. ”FIRST is an inter-scholastic competition whose objective is to Favour Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology among Quebec youth, by engaging them in an innovative robotics mentoring program focused on the construction…
Sometimes one wonders if there is anything Google cannot or will not do. The multi-million dollar giant has proven that its interests are not solely financial in its most recent endeavor: that of launching a website meant to become the most extensive catalogue of languages currently at risk of extinction. The Endangered Languages Project uses…
Vigilant Futures won a very prestigious award last night in Hollywood, California. The company was one of 100 privately-held technology firms that made it to Red Herring’s Top 100 list for 2011. Applicants submit their candidacy and Red Herring’s editorial staff narrows the applicants down to 200. Following this, the top 200 are invited to…
The 2011 Red Herring 100 North America will be announced on June 15 in Hollywood, but in the meantime, they’ve short-listed their top 200 and Vigilant Futures is one of those on the prestigious list. We’re very proud and honoured to make it to the top 200 and look forward to the final round! Check…
We’re quite proud one of the Youth Fusion teams made it all the way to the semis this year. Here’s a video compilation from the weekend.