Your Gateway to
Innovative Solutions
Your Gateway
to Innovative Solutions
Fuel your organization’s future with student-powered solutions.
Discover Brilliant Solutions
Brilliant Solutions is a customized experiential learning program connecting organizations with multidisciplinary student teams to solve real-world challenges with innovative, actionable ideas and solutions. Each engagement empowers companies to explore new ideas, validate business opportunities, and build innovation capacity with direct support from faculty experts and innovation professionals.
Through this service, the Brilliant Catalyst will present a customized experience to your organization to solve a real-world problem or challenge that you are experiencing. By leveraging some of Ontario's brightest post-secondary student talent, we will curate and match your organization with a student-driven experience that addresses the problem, harnesses student innovation, and grants your organization direct access to top student talent.
Discover Brilliant Solutions
Brilliant Solutions connects organizations with top Ontario post-secondary talent to develop bold, actionable solutions for real-world problems—through customized, collaborative experiences.
What Makes It Brilliant?
Tap into Ontario’s brightest minds. We match you with students ready to bring fresh ideas and actionable solutions to your organization.
Choose what fits you best: short ideathons, multi-week innovation challenges, or project-based collaborations. Mix and match to meet your goals.
From digital tools to strategy roadmaps, our student teams have delivered real outcomes — and they’re ready to build your next breakthrough.
Ideathons
Outcomes & Information
Multi-day experiences which engage large quantities of students to ideate around a specific problem or challenge being experienced by your organization.
Ideathons typically range from 1-5 days in duration, and are focused primarily on leveraging student talent, innovation, and creativity to generate outside-of-the-box ideas that take a unique approach to solving your organization’s challenge or problem.
- Ontario Tech students ideate health-care AI-driven ideas with Lakeridge Health experts.Read more
Project-Based
Outcomes & Information
Our team will arrange a team of students from across disciplines to work throughout a defined term to develop a specific solution as defined by your organization.
These student teams collaborate on project-based placements, guided by faculty experts and supported by the team at Brilliant Catalyst, to deliver tailored, real-world solutions that companies can implement.
- Ontario Shores: Evaluated technology for dementia patients.
- Durham Legal Clinic: Built a digital client intake system. Read more
- City of Oshawa: Developed downtown revitalization strategies. Read more
- AutoGuardian: Created a smart traffic technology whitepaper.
Innovation Challenges
Outcomes & Information
Over the course of multiple weeks, student teams will be tasked with developing more robust solutions that could lead to further commercialization and market entry.
Project-Based
Outcomes & Information
Our team will arrange a team of students from across disciplines to work throughout a defined term to develop a specific solution as defined by your organization.
These student teams collaborate on project-based placements, guided by faculty experts and supported by the team at Brilliant Catalyst, to deliver tailored, real-world solutions that companies can implement.
- Ontario Shores: Evaluated technology for dementia patients.
- Durham Legal Clinic: Built a digital client intake system. Read more
- City of Oshawa: Developed downtown revitalization strategies. Read more
- AutoGuardian: Created a smart traffic technology whitepaper.
The Brilliant Advantage
Each Brilliant Solutions experience is designed to deliver meaningful outcomes — not just ideas. Explore how our programs create real value by combining student innovation with business impact.
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Ideathon
Project-Based
Innovation
Challenges
Implementation Plan
Marketing Strategy
Prototyping (Wireframes, 3D
Modelling, SolidWorks, CAD)
Problem Solving
Ideathon
Project-Based
Innovation
Idea Generation
Ideathon
Project-Based
Innovation
Access to Talent
Ideathon
Project-Based
Innovation
Business Model
Project-Based
Innovation
Business Plan
Project-Based
Innovation
Financial Plan
Project-Based
Implementation Planning
Project-Based
Marketing Strategy
Project-Based
Prototyping (Wireframes, 3DModelling, SolidWorks, CAD)
Project-Based
Innovation
FREQUENTLY ASKED
QUESTIONS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Each project is flexible based on the desired timelines, budgets, and desired solution from the partner, but typically projects adhere to the following timelines:
- Ideathon can range from 3-8 days.
- Innovation Challenge is 1-3 weeks.
- Project-based is dependent on the partners’/project’s needs.
This program will accept applications from post-secondary students in Ontario who are legally eligible to work and are in good academic standing, with a GPA above 3.0.
The project and innovation challenge are open to postsecondary students in their third year or above. The ideathon is open to all post-secondary students!
There is a cost associated with each project, which will be dependent on the partner’s needs. Companies are encouraged to request a quote!
Yes, companies are welcome to apply to as many projects as they would like!
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