Daisy Zhang, 2025 Ample Ace Holdings Ltd Innovation in Technology Award Winner

Daisy Zhang Georges Vanier Secondary School, Toronto, ON Daisy constructed sustainable wooden structures and a disc golf course, and also designed benches for Heart Lake Conservation Park to align with the needs of the community, using a Miroboard and SketchUp, to add bike storage. In the Jamhacks hackathon, she created a website called Bin to Bite that aims to help those cooking for themselves or families in using all their available ingredients to minimize food waste and maximize meals. She has also prototyped a design for affordable vertical garden planter kits that can save space while growing plants and vegetables in urban homes. She enjoys combining engineering and sustainability to solve problems, and actively participated in her school’s robotics and eco club, the engineering programs at local conservation parks, and the GEM mentorship program. Her dream is to be an engineer using technology to create new innovations that help others and improve sustainability. Daisy is enrolled in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo