As the summer of 2020 is coming to a close we can't help but feel like something is missing. Something that brings us together as a company and gets us active, something that forces us to be adventurous and take risks and to tackle new challenges. The Nerd Olympics The Nerd Olympics [...]
The spring shutdown surprised EVERYONE. No one could have foreseen just how swift and thoroughly our every day lives could be changed. Perhaps the most surprising was people's reaction to the sheer amount of FREE TIME they suddenly found themselves with. Previously such a precious, rare and valuable commodity, everyone was suddenly filthy rich [...]
“Engineering is more of an art than a science.” For the controls and robotics engineers at Brave, this tongue in cheek saying comes up fairly often around the office. Given our role as leading systems integrators and engineering/manufacturing consultants who are tasked with navigating through a multitude of technologies and options available in order [...]
Quarantine was weird. We can all come out and agree on that now right? The world changed and responded so rapidly to the emergence and spread of COVID-19, that it felt like the walls came down around us almost overnight, trapping everyone at home with no obvious ending or return to normalcy in sight. [...]
Last Friday November 15 was a PD Day for area school boards so FIRST LEGO League Team #37527, more commonly known as the Brave Rookie Robots, stopped by our office to drop off a thank you gift to our President, Brent McPhail, for being their platinum and title sponsor for this past year. They [...]
This has been an extremely humbling year for the Nerd Olympics. Never in the last 3 years have we ever been so far down the leaderboard. We're not last, but the competition has been much fiercer this year than previously! The rookie teams have been coming out in full force and all the teams [...]
This past Monday night our team competed in event #3 of WETech Alliance's Nerd Olympics Competition. Since we went a little overboard in our training by renting our own mechanical bull for our backyard summer party we figured we had this one in the bag. TURNS OUT that every bull is unique, and a [...]
Every summer we like to throw our staff a party. It gives everyone the chance to get together outside of work, relax, socialize and forget about the pressures of the jobs and focus on what really makes Brave unique: our ability to have fun! With the Nerd Olympic competition looming, we wanted to get [...]
It is finally our favourite time of the year! WETech Alliance's Nerd Olympics has returned for the 4th year! This year's Opening Ceremonies was hosted by our friends from the first ever Nerd Olympics Silver Tee Golf and Virtual Gaming who always know how to show us a good time!We were sad to have to relinquish the [...]
Monday night was the long awaited Closing Ceremonies to the 2018 Nerd Olympics. It was a full night as the event coincided with the launch of WEtech Alliance's #TechWeekYQG. Close to two hundred attendees walked the red carpet tonight for the 2nd Annual YQG Tech Awards that recognized outstanding tech leaders in Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent. [...]
