Troost ILead Difference Maker Award / en Morris Huang wins Troost ILead Difference Maker Award /celebrates/morris-huang-wins-troost-ilead-difference-maker-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Morris Huang wins Troost ILead Difference Maker Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-04-28T14:42:14-04:00" title="Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 14:42" class="datetime">Wed, 04/28/2021 - 14:42</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/troost-ilead-difference-maker-award" hreflang="en">Troost ILead Difference Maker Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-materials-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Department of Materials Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Morris-Huang-headshot.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">Fourth-year student Morris Huang has been recognized with the Difference Maker Award for his leadership through the student-run non-profit, Global Spark. (Photo courtesy Morris Huang)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><b>Morris Huang</b>, a fourth-year student in the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering at the University of Toronto, has been named the first recipient of the&nbsp;<a href="https://ilead.engineering.utoronto.ca/resources/scholarships-awards/difference-maker-award/">Troost ILead Difference Maker Award</a> for his leadership through the student-run non-profit, Global Spark.</p> <p>The $50,000 award was established in 2020 by the Bodhi Tree Fund, a private giving foundation, to support a graduating student with a vision to make a positive difference in their communities and beyond.</p> <p>Global Spark, which began as <a href="https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/massive-challenges-are-impacting-every-facet-of-life-march-9-15-is-global-engineering-week/">Global Engineering Week</a> at łÔąĎ±¬ÁĎ in 2017, helps students connect what they learn in the classroom with on-the-ground work in areas such as climate change, renewable energy and, most recently, vaccine distribution. Its material is included in more than 100 courses at eight universities around the world.</p> <p>“We don’t just want to teach students, we want them to mobilize in tackling some of these big problems by engaging them through course curriculum, implementing new course content, assignments, activities and tutorials,” says Huang.</p> <p>Global Spark also organizes design competitions, student fairs and Canada’s largest social impact hackathon, Hack the Globe, to help students explore the application of their own global development solutions.</p> <h3><a href="https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/u-of-t-engineering-student-leader-receives-inaugural-troost-ilead-difference-maker-award/">Read the Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:42:14 +0000 lanthierj 169197 at