THE MAPLE INNOVATION CHALLENGE WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The contest’s second round was narrowed down to the five teams below. The 14 jurors were sent each team’s maple innovation for taste sampling in January and the scores were submitted. On Monday February 6th the grand prize-winning team was announced! Congratulations to Yuchen Bai and Arianna Sultani of Team Novaland, University of Guelph with their maple innovation of chickpea pancake mix.

Honourable mentions to 2nd place finishers Veronica Jaramillo and Priscilla Leftakis (Team Taco Belles of McGill University, Vegan Hot Chocolate Mix) and 3rd place Tina Farokhifar, Stephanie Boissonneault, and Aliza Hunt (Team Maple Madness of Toronto Metropolitan University, Maplelicious Bites)

Thanks to all the student teams and jurors for participating! Visit mapleinnovationchallenge.ca and themapletreat.com for all the details.

Congratulations to the Winners!

Team NovaLand
Chickpea Pancake Mix
University of Guelph: Yuchen Bai, Arianna Sultani

Team Taco Belles
Hot Chocolate Mix
McGill University: Veronica Jaramillo, Priscilla Leftakis

Team Maple Madness
Maplelicious Bites
Toronto Metropolitan University: Tina Farokhifar, Stephanie Boissonneault, Aliza Hunt

Shout to the other finalist teams!

Thank you to our Jurors and Sponsors for making this event possible!