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High-school students take on the justice gap
Amy Salyzyn’s Apps for Justice Challenge earns a university award.
Photo: University of Ottawa
The context
What the reporting shows
The initiative invites Ontario students to explore how technology might make legal help more accessible. Salyzyn received the 2026 Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award in the established-researcher category. The programme connects legal research with young people’s ideas; the award does not establish that any proposed app has solved access barriers.
The stakeholder lens
Who this work touches
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The takeaway
A question to carry forward
For alumni readers, the useful next step is to follow the original reporting for names, dates and outcomes. This digest adds an editorial frame while keeping the source page as the authority.
Source reporting
Professor Amy Salyzyn receives uOttawa Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award
Original summary by Alumni Digest, based on public source reporting. This independent publication is not affiliated with or endorsed by the University of Ottawa. Source image retained for editorial review; rights clearance is still required before broader reuse.
