Algoma University gets City cash for computer health game

Algoma University received a $50,000 contribution tonight from City Council toward the cost of developing a prototype video game aimed at helping people learn to speak again after a stroke.

The project will also design 3-D environments to test rehabilitation medicine products to help the disabled. It's seen as a critical step toward a proposed Algoma Games for Health Centre at the university.

In an unrelated decision, City councillors also agreed to provide the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre with $20,000 to establish a local biofuel cooperative and $10,000 for a sustainable biomass production zone project.

The latter project will focus on producing, assessing, facilitating commercial use of private woody and agrivultural biomass sources for cogeneration operations.

Major supporters of the biomass initiative include St. Marys Paper and local start-up firm SITTM (Stick It To the Man) Technologies.

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