• The FIRST place prize is $1,500
• The SECOND place prize is $1,000
• The THIRD place prize is $500
• The POLICY PITCH prize is $250 

We would like to thank our adjudicators, mentors and judges for their contributions to the National Policy Challenge.

Adjudicators helped us select the finalists, our mentors provided guidance to some of the finalists while they worked on their projects, and the judges have reviewed the presentations and will be selecting the award recipients.

Mentors

• Luc Clair, University of Winnipeg
• Kirsten Fiest, University of Calgary
• Kait Quinn, Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety and Ministry of Justice and Attorney General,  Government of Saskatchewan
• Scott Strickland, Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services

Adjudicators

• Cristina Anton, SAS Institute Canada
• Donna Dosman, Statistics Canada
• Harminder Guliani, University of Regina    
• Mustafa Örnek, Statistics Canada
• Lorne Rothman, SAS Institute Canada
• Daniel Silver, University of Toronto

The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is a premier research and training platform for over 2,000 researchers in the  quantitative social and health sciences in Canada. The Network provides unique access to Statistics Canada data on 33 campuses across the country to advance knowledge and inform public policy.

It is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Statistics Canada and our 42 primary and affiliated partner universities. CRDCN is recognized as one of Canada’s Major Science Initiatives.