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CMU student helps team place third in innovative business competition

Monday, March 30, 2026 @ 1:53 PM

When Rosalyn Dao, a student in the Redekop School of Business at CMU, heard about an opportunity to spend her weekend solving a business challenge for a real company and presenting it before an audience—all within 48 hours, and with a team she had never met—she was eager to take on the challenge.

The opportunity was Sprint to Innovate: The Innovation Challenge, powered by Canada Life. This year's edition, running January 30 to February 1, brought together around 100 students in technology and business from post-secondary institutions across Manitoba. Each team of four to six students raced to create a solution and viable prototype for a challenge presented by an industry organization, then prepare and deliver a pitch before the weekend was over. Dao's team, which included her and five RRC Polytech students, placed third.