Two Okanagan College students help local tech company gain a competitive edge
Two Okanagan College students help local tech company gain a competitive edge
An Okanagan College professor has been awarded a federal research grant that will help a growing Kelowna gaming company and provide three students valuable experience in Kelowna’s competitive tech market.
Currently two students Trevor Alstad and Riley Dunkin, in the Bachelor of Computer Information Systems program, have already started working on the project studying ways to monitor and optimize the game services of Kelowna-based technology company WTFast. They are working under the direction of project supervisor and Okanagan College Computer Science professor Dr. Youry Khmelevsky.
The research is being funded through a College and Community Program Innovation grant of $24,990 from Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). It is the first NSERC grant the College has received.
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