Projets novateurs réalisés

Bunkie Life Manufacturing Breakthrough Creation

Bunkie life is in the custom building and manufacturing industry but we’re famous for our small log cabin kits called bunkies that can be built in a weekend with no power tools or 2nd mortgage required. Ultimately, they help families create extra space for meaningful connections. Bunkie Life recently appeared on CBC’s Dragon’s Den and secured a historic deal that allowed us to open up our own manufacturing facility. They are looking for assistance as we launch our new factory and all the challenges accompanying that process. The partner company will utilize the intern’s business knowledge to help with developing operational strategies while the intern learns throughout the summer from this experience.

Youth Education and Social Media Outreach for the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation

The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC) currently utilizes youth-centred educational programs as ways to share the importance of wildlife conservation. Their educational programs include information about local wildlife, their rehabilitation practices and demonstrate the impacts humans can have on wildlife and actions we can take to mitigate these impacts. It is important for youth of all ages to access quality education and learning on sustainable topics, such as wildlife conservation, and this research project is interested in how to best deliver educational content surrounding wildlife conservation to youth. The AIWC utilizes social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook and TikTok) to spread awareness about their operations, fundraise and educate the public on wildlife rehabilitation and how to mitigate negative human impacts on local southern Alberta wildlife. This project aims to aid the AIWC in optimizing their social media to increase public engagement, educate the public, and increase donations.

Developing a marketing strategy to drive user adoption of financial literacy app

At Walletifai, we have spent the past couple of years building the smartest personal financial solution that helps Millenials and Gen Z overcome their financial anxiety and make financial decisions with confidence.

Who we are:
We are building a smart personal financial coach and assistant mobile app that helps Millennials and Gen Z understand their financial lifestyle and guides them to develop healthy financial habits.

Our mobile app looks into the past expenses to offer valuable insights to improve money management such as predicting future expenses, tracking spending, auto-detecting and grouping essential expenses, improving save-to-spend behaviour, and notifying users when unexpected actions happen on their bank accounts.

Our mission is to make short-term and long-term personal financial planning accessible to everyone through AI and ML. We thrive to empower our users to have a high-quality financial life without being experts.

We have received the following awards:
Founder Roya Kachooei is a Recipient of the DMZ Women of the Year Award 2022
2021 Third Most Trending Startup in Toronto – Hackernoon

Our project scope:
This project is engineered to help us increase brand awareness, develop organic customer acquisition strategies, and build a financial literacy community to help improve financial health in Canada.

Nanogram Pharmaceutical Compounding Ltd. Custom Online Platform v2

The intern will be tasked with creating a unique online platform for healthcare providers and veterinarians to be validated, and able to order custom medications. This type of platform does not exist yet. It will involve a thorough embedded validation process, user management, an advanced search and filter function, embedded
educational/regulatory/product information, a complex pricing algorithm, dynamic pricing that changes as customizations are made to the medications, checkout, tracking, and reporting history.

Eventually through the use of a unique online platform, Nanogram and other applicable providers of compounding services will be able to offer compounds efficiently, transparently, economically and provide all necessary details instantly along with an accurate price quote, delivery time and option
to pay online. This will help transform and modernize compounding within the Canadian pharmacy industry. This project will help Nanogram address the challenge of online connectivity and order access by select healthcare professionals. This will transform the process by which custom medications are accessed by providing live-time inventory management, custom reports to comply with provincial and federal health authorities. Currently custom medications are ordered via phone or fax, with no easy way to access associated documents after the product has been ordered.

Cadabra: accueil d’une stagiaire étudiante à la maîtrise en muséologie

Intégration d’une stagiaire étudiante à la maîtrise en muséologie dans la conception de projets au sein de l’équipe de Cadabra. Cadabra est un studio pluridisciplinaire situé à Montréal dont la mission consiste à transformer des récits et des contenus de toute nature en expériences collectives qui stimulent les sens, rassemblent et émerveillent. Cadabra puise dans les univers du théâtre, du cinéma et de la scène pour créer des spectacles immersifs mémorables qui suscitent l’engagement du public. L’ajout d’une personne ressource en muséologie a le potentiel d’enrichir la conception de projets, notamment par le lien direct de cette discipline avec les modes d’expositions, l’éducation, mais aussi avec tout ce qui est patrimoine, qu’il soit matériel ou immatériel.

Dreamcatcher Informatics : un système d’information Web et mobile pour soutenir la gestion des terres, la consultation et la préservation de l’histoire, de la culture et des connaissances écologiques traditionnelles

The two goals of this project are to: 1. create a demonstration information system based on an existing system called Dreamcatcher for consultation, land-use, occupancy, and planning based on the archival material of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation (MNCFN); and
2. use this system and First Story to preserve and promote Aboriginal history and culture from the Aboriginal perspective.
To be useful for MNCFN, extensive research related to the Duty to Consult must be undertaking including investigation of: legal aspects of consultation processes; evaluating currently used methods related to land-use and development; legal status of First Nations; reviewing the Duty to Consult rulings of the Supreme Court; and how First Nations are represented in mainstream Canadian history. Additionally, resources such as archival documents, oral traditions, environmental assessments and land-use history must be transcribed, uploaded and annotated to create a rich asset map for the MNCFN..

Ideation and Go-to-Market Research for Relationship App

WooYourBoo is a startup based in Brampton, On. We launched in June 2020. We are a business that focuses on helping couples strengthen their relationship. Currently, we’ve built and launched an app that allows couples to discover their Love Language. After the app learns this information it suggests date ideas and things couples can do locally based on their Love Language. One of our biggest challenges is personnel. We are looking to scale our company across Canada but are limited because we don’t have the people power to market, source, and write about ideas that couples can do. This is a major issue as this component is quintessential to how our app functions as well as our brand. The student intern will support our organization is the following ways:

– A report detailing the percentage change in engagement with content on our social medial platforms at the end of every month starting with month two.
– A report detailing the average star rating for generated ideas starting in month two.
– Responsible for generating 320 (80 per month over four months) new date ideas.
– A report detailing contact with 500 places of worship and counsellors and the associated response rate.
– A report that details the social media content that best communicates with our audience based on comments, likes, and shares to both Facebook and Instagram.

A DevOps framework for developing, operating, and evolving SDN infrastructure and applications

Software-defined networking (SDN) leverages software to virtualize networking resources and make them more customizable and versatile. SDN is at the core of many ground-breaking advances and a key enabler for major technologies (e.g., 5G, IoT, Industry 4.0, and Smart Cities) that promise to have far-reaching economic and societal impact. To maximize SDN benefits, DevOps, an approach used in the software industry to increase productivity and quality, is ideally suited to support the development and evolution of SDN software. In collaboration with Kaloom and TELUS, the proposed research will develop an SDN DevOps framework to support the implementation and continuously measurement and improvement of SDN software lifecycle. These results will improve the state-of-the-art in the Canadian software industry and allow Canada to realize the innovation potential
of SDN. Moreover, the research will give 11 HQP the opportunity to acquire skills and expertise that are in high demand in the Canadian industries.

FRP Strengthening of Underground Reinforced Concrete Structures

Corrosion of the reinforcing steel is an extensive problem that reduces the service life of the structure and results in costly repairs and safety hazards. As a result, such deteriorated concrete structures must be replaced or extensively repaired, rehabilitated or strengthened. As a result, engineers worldwide are continuously seeking durable materials and robust systems to strengthen structures to reduce the financial costs and improve the service life of our damaged and deteriorated infrastructure.
The ENMAX’s Calgary’s downtown power supply network and general distribution assets, most of the underground structures (manholes and transformer vaults) are significantly aged (over 40+ years), and some show signs of deterioration are in serious need of repair. Therefore, strengthening these structures is critical for the safety and livelihoods of Calgarians. Therefore, ENMAX would like to investigate the use of various non-corrosive, high strength to weight ratio Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) systems on these structures to ascertain if it is an appropriate strengthening method. This project will evaluate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of two techniques using externally bonded (EB-CFRP sheets) and Near-Surface Mounted (NSM-CFRP strips) systems by strengthening RC walls dismantled from existing deteriorated manholes and transformer vaults from the Calgary underground network.

Favoriser la santé mentale des travailleuses et travailleurs du secteur tertiaire: Exploration d’une approche novatrice basée sur l’exposition régulière à un environnement artistique immersif

La prévalence de détresse psychologique au travail, déjà préoccupante, s’est exacerbée ces deux dernières années en raison de la pandémie, particulièrement dans le secteur. Or, les travaux manquent quant aux interventions novatrices à grande échelle pour promouvoir la santé mentale des travailleur.se.s du secteur tertiaire. Misant sur le potentiel inexploré de l’art public et des installations artistiques offertes par les nouvelles technologies (multimédia, réalité virtuelle, etc.) pour favoriser la santé mentale, le projet vise à mieux comprendre les impacts à court et moyen termes associés à l’immersion régulière dans un environnement artistique multimédia sur des indicateurs de bien-être et santé mentale chez des travailleur.se.s du secteur tertiaire. La recherche est menée de concert avec l’organisme à but non lucratif La Piscine, qui travaille à soutenir l’art et la culture au service de l’avancement de la société, et qui a entamé des travaux pour comprendre l’impact d’expériences culturelles sur la santé mentale au travail.

Exploring Trauma- and Violence-Informed Physical Activity Approaches: Refugee Women’s Perspectives

This proposed research aims to understand the barriers to mental health and physical activity supports for self-identified refugee women, from both youth and older populations, who have experienced trauma and/or violence. Limited access to adequate mental and physical health services for refugee women has led to underdiagnosis of mental illness amongst refugee women and the underutilization of important mental health services and resources. From this research, I aim to understand if a trauma and violence-informed approach to physical activity (TVIPA) may serve as a useful strategy to promote the uptake of physical activity in refugee dominate communities. Core principles of TVIPA includes providing individuals with a physically, socially, and emotionally safe space to engage in physical activity. In collaboration with Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre (WHIWH), barriers to physical activity can be identified by meaningfully engaging with self-identified refugee women at this center. From this interaction, we also aim to understand if/how TVIPA designed through an intergenerational lens with/for refugee women have the potential to increase access to PA programming. Findings from this study could also serve to inform strategies for ethnic-based community organizations to strengthen intergenerational connectedness and mental well-being through physical activity.

Vers un tableau de bord interactif pour mieux soutenir la santé mentale au travail chez les personnes issues de groupes marginalisés

Ce projet vise à aider les employeurs à prendre le pouls de la santé mentale de leurs employé.e.s d’une façon qui soient rigoureuse et sensible, notamment pour les travailleur.se.s de groupes marginalisés. Un module web interactif sera développé, afin de dresser un portrait global de l’état de santé mentale chez les employé.e.s d’une organisation (à l’aide d’un questionnaire global de santé mentale) et d’en visualiser les faits saillants de façon interactive. Le développement et le raffinement de l’outil se basera sur une recension des écrits et sera bonifié par une approche grâce à laquelle des travailleur.se.s et des gestionnaires/employeur.e.s auront l’occasion de s’exprimer sur le contenu de l’application et d’apporter leurs suggestions. Il s’agit d’un ajout important pour Relief qui lui permettra de mieux cerner les besoins des travailleur.se.s de groupes marginalisés et de mieux aider les milieux de travail, et par ricochet les Canadiennes et Canadiens qui y travaillent.