The intern will review past approaches which have endeavoured to capture the concept of social cohesion as a numerical index. Additionally, they will examine methods which have attempted to better understand the value of non-monetary benefits such as civic engagement or social support networks. Having examined such previous work, the intern will select a social […]

The Brick Labs Inc. have identified two new services that we will introduce in the next 4 months. The first is the Learning Continuity Program (LCP) which begins in September and is currently available for registration. It basically can be described as contracted 3rd party homeschooling for elementary students. The second will be our virtual […]

The goal of the proposed research project is to evaluate the usability of a new module for an existing eLearning program for classroom teachers called Teacher Help. The new module is designed to provide training in evidence-based classroom management strategies to decrease disruptive classroom behaviour. Participants will be classroom teachers (n =20) and other stakeholders […]

Ensuring high levels of literacy for all children is now more important than ever. However, the Canadian landscape of literacy is quickly changing. For instance, Canadian families come from increasingly multilingual and multicultural backgrounds and the use of technology and digital media in literacy is growing rapidly. In this Mitacs project, we have partnered with […]

Les interventions des plongeurs-scaphandriers aux abords des barrages hydro-électriques nécessitent la plus grande vigilance afin d’assurer leur sécurité. Au-delà des difficultés ordinaires rencontrées en plongée, les interventions aux abords de ces structures présentent de réels risques de courants puissants et très localisés dus au phénomène de Delta P (différence de pression). Celui-ci est capable d’emporter […]

Locomotion is a basic act that humans and animals use in everyday life to move in the environment. There has been an ongoing effort for at least a century to understand the mechanisms that the brain uses to control locomotion, including starting and stopping. Studying those mechanisms at the level of single neurons, and finding […]

The project will focus on growing the company’s digital education initiatives. Marketing aspects of the project will focus on lead capture and customer acquisition. Strategy aspects of the project will focus on building business cases for software integrations and solutions.

Prior to Spring Break, BC teachers had engaged JABC to deliver 1,246 programs to students and we had 600 programs registered for the time between April 1st and June 30th. JABC was on track to deliver 1,900 JA programs to BCâ€TMs youth. Of course, circumstance changed considerably in March, and as soon as JABC learned […]

The Vancouver Aquarium, an Ocean Wise initiative, is home to thousands of ocean species and amazing aquatic life. It is also Ocean Wise headquarters, where our scientists, educators and conservation experts do their work, not only to protect our oceans but to inspire others to join us in our mission. The internship will review accounting […]

The Dobson Lagasse Centre has entered a time of great uncertainty since March 2020. Plans by the university are in flux. A second wave may change current plans. How to provide students with experiential learning opportunities and how to provide them with entrepreneurial skills in a time of physical distancing are unclear. COVID-19 has had […]

GrantMe is an online ed-tech company where students and educators can access our platform from the comfort of their own homes. Although we have seen a decline in revenue of 15%, we are still able to operate and hope to recover from the economic impact of COVID. We believe that ed-tech is going to become […]

The intern would be key to help us develop a plan to reach more students by tutoring online worldwide and diversify our offerings by adding more exams to our portfolio, enabling us to grow despite the downturn in the industry, by gaining more market share. As we move to the implementation phase of our 2-year […]