The $75,000 in funding is in addition to $25,000 that Georgian will be receiving from the city's existing economic and creative development budget.

Georgian will receive $33,476 to develop a mobile COVID-19 screening station.

The program includes courses in artificial intelligence infrastructure, architecture, reinforcement learning, neural networks, vision and conversation systems.

Georgian College said the student attended the Barrie, Ont., campus and that the school is working closely with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit.

Applications for Georgian College's coronavirus hardship bursary will be accepted until June 3.

As Ontario battles the novel coronavirus pandemic, Georgian College students are helping to produce face shields for local health-care workers.

The YMCA has opened a licensed emergency child-care centre for front-line and essential workers in Simcoe County as Ontario grapples with the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Georgian College is donating personal protective equipment (PPE) and manufacturing face shields to give to hospitals and long-term care facilities amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

While classes are suspended, both schools will prepare course content that can be delivered remotely or through other ways.

Georgian College will soon offer free tuition to students in or from foster care, with funding available for up to 15 individuals, beginning in September.