Team Growers

About Us

We Team Growers of York University C4 capstone project, are a group of highly motivated collaborative and hard-working students who wish to help the Woburn community of Scarborough regarding their food insecurity challenges! Our project involves collaborating with Team Maintainers in planting crops at Woburn Collegiate Institute alongside empowering and inspiring the Woburn community by interviewing the community members!

Members of Team Growers strike diferent poses for a team picture

Members of Team Growers cross thier arms behind each other's shoulders as they pase for s team photo

Team Profiles

Mahmoud Al Akchar

Project Manager

Mahmoud is a mechanical engineering student. After doing his capstone project in 2022, Mahmoud decided to build on his management skills by taking a group manager position. He is passionate about integrating his engineering skills into real world scenarios especially in humanitarian cases. Mahmoud wishes that his teammates work seeds blossoms into something that helps and bring the community together.

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Mae Shibasaki

Project Manager

Mae recently completed her Bilingual Honours Degree in International Studies. She is interested in transformation towards sustainable society, enhancing food insecurity, and engaging with community members. She hopes to continue her passion by joining C4 while developing her project management skills.

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Florencia Albarracin

Team Member

Florencia is in the visual arts program with specialized honours. She is passionate about various forms of artistic mediums including classical and digital, which ranges from printmaking, sculpture, and painting, to video editing, graphic design, and photography. She joined C4 to help improve and apply her skills in design while learning how to work with a group. During C4, she has gained experience in problem-solving and communicating with team members while building on new skills, such as graphic design for the project website. She hopes that her team’s hard work and efforts can influence future C4 students just as much as they influenced her. development goals, while developing new skills and giving back to the community. During the course of the project, she demonstrated great teamwork and collaboration skills, and developed her interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.

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Ebrahim Naji

Team member

Ebrahim is an international student in a specialized honors biotechnology program whose general interest is in molecular biology and genetics. During his undergraduate study at York University, Ebrahim has acquired collaboration and communication skills, and he has a motivated and team player attitude to complete tasks and achieve goals. Furthermore, he likes helping people out, so he joined C4 to help his team to make a difference in the society. He also wishes to further improve his skills and gain experience in a team-work environment. During his C4 journey, Ebrahim has learned what it means and what it takes to work as a successful and efficient team to achieve the project goal. Most importantly, he also learned that in order to make a significant impact on a community, perseverance and a great dedication of hard-work are needed to deliver it as best as possible. Ebrahim hopes that his team’s hard work and dedication will leave a tremendous impact on the community.

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Mehdi Movahed

Team member

Mehdi is a student pursuing a specialised honours in the Biotechnology program whose common interests are in virology, laboratory testing and molecular biology. Throughout his academic career, he has attained a set of social and laboratory skills from laboratory work and community volunteering. He joined the C4 team to apply his teamwork and collaboration skills. During his C4 course, Mehdi commenced collaboration between team members and facilitated the communication between members alongside contributing to course work with high integrity and consistency. Through his C4 journey, Mehdi learned that in order to have a significant impact on a target stakeholder, great commitment, hardwork and patience is required alongside being able to pivot the original plan in order to meet the deliverables and satisfy the needs of stakeholders.

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Gurleen Sanghera

Team member

Gurleen is a second year Kinesiology and Health Science student who is passionate about leading a healthy life through nutrition and exercise. She joined the C4 Capstone program because she thought it would be a great opportunity to work with her team to create a lasting, real world impact for a complex issue. She also hoped to develop her communication, collaboration, and writing skills. Gurleen hopes that her group was able to create a lasting legacy, and cannot wait to see what future C4 students are able to achieve.

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Sana Syed Akthar

Team member

Sana is a mechanical engineering student who is passionate and committed towards exploring design solutions to optimise the automotive industry. She is deeply inclined towards developing her critical thinking skills in her undergraduate journey. Sana joined the C4 program to challenge herself in applying her skills in a real world scenario. She also wishes to further improve and develop her communication and collaborative skills that would come in handy later on in her career while also hoping to leave a positive impact in the community.

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Ian Porto

Team member

Ian is a Space Engineering Student who is passionate about everything space related, he hopes to help humanity achieve multiplanetary status. He joined C4 to improve and develop his communication skills and to advance in his degree.

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Nikhil Motwani

Team member

Nickhil is a fourth year student completing his degree in Financial and Business Economics. He is enthusiastic about macroeconomics and world market trends. During his free time he enjoys going to the gym, cooking and reading. He joined C4 to acquire a greater skill set and to work towards an initiative that will create a positive impact.

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Robert Thomson Taylor

Team member

Robert is a film student who joined C4 as an elective credit. He also joined to get involved in a community project in order to develop better communication skills to further advance his growth as a student.

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Team Growers

About Us

Team Profiles

Mahmoud Al Akchar

Mae Shibasaki​

Florencia Albarracin

Ebrahim Naji

Mehdi Movahed

Gurleen Sanghera

Sana Syed Akthar

Ian Porto

Nikhil Motwani

Robert Thomson Taylor

Mae Shibasaki