These Guelph students landed a spot in the finals for the Hockey Innovation Competition
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What started out as a class project has landed four University of Guelph students in the finals of the NHL and NHLPA Hockey Innovation Competition in Ottawa.
The second-year sport management students have created a project called Every Step Counts. It proposes installing kinetic floor tiles in NHL arenas to capture the movement of fans walking across them, converting it to energy and then electricity.
"We know that we wanted to do something fun and interactive to get fans involved," Alexandra Cohen told CBC K-W's The Morning Edition.
"So, essentially, with every step you take on the tile, it's using that kinetic energy and turning it into electricity. So it's actually the fans themselves that would be powering [it].
"With every step, [the tiles] store up that kinetic energy, and then it gets transferred into other electricity that you can use to power different things," added Cohen.
Emily Miasik said her team was "bouncing between a few different ideas" when they settled on the kinetic tiles.
"We've seen the kinetic tiles being used at concerts and other larger events, but we never saw the kinetic tiles being implemented within sports games, so we decided to implement it within this NHL project," she said.
Lila Pringle said the group is looking forward to presenting their idea at the March 25 event at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.
"We've been working on this for so long, it's going to be very rewarding to actually present in front of judges and kind of get that experience because as of right now, we've only really presented in front of our professors," Pringle said.
She said they are also looking forward to "the networking opportunity."
"Being able to be this early in our university career and being able to make these connections is really important and a great opportunity that I'm really looking forward to," said Pringle.
The University of Guelph team is one of six finalists announced by the National Hockey League and National Hockey League Players’ Association for the Ontario‑based Hockey Innovation Competition.
The other finalists are from University of Waterloo, St. Clair College, Queen's University, Humber Polytechnic and George Brown College.
According to the NHL, the third edition of the competition invited Ontario-based post-secondary students to develop "bold, practical ideas that address real‑world challenges facing the game," with a focus on the future of hockey infrastructure.
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