Vigilant Futures’ employees take first place in 41-flight relay race in Place Ville Marie

For the second year in a row, Vigilant Futures employees participated in RBC’s relay race challenge benefiting Centraide. For the first time though, we won with the best time.

Vigilant Futures employees’ posted the best time out of 43 teams right from the start. We were second up the 41 flights of stairs to the top of Place Ville Marie following only the team of honour…current and former Canadian Olympians.

In total, RBC raised $106, 000 for Centraide’s 2011 holiday campaign and Vigilant Futures is proud to have helped in our small way. You can check out a clip from last’s race below and our photos from the day’s events on our Flickr page.

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Youth Fusion demonstrates robot at Vigilant Office

Yesterday, the founder of Youth Fusion – Gabriel Bran Lopez – joined Vigilant employees over lunch. He brought along a robot for a lunchtime demo to motivate Vigilant employees about the upcoming 2012 FIRST Robotics challenge and the regional in Montreal.
Students from a high school in the greater Montreal area built the robot with the guidance of a Youth Fusion mentor from ETS University in Montreal. The idea was to get employees excited about the event Vigilant Futures is sponsoring in a few ways; first as an event co-sponsor along with other Montreal-based companies, and second through sponsoring the robot-build at Lasalle Community Comprehensive High School.