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Environmental Scan for Mentoring Opportunities to Serve Side-lined Youth in Eastern Nova Scotia

The Ahead of the Game Youth Mentoring Organization (AOTG) is a not for profit organization who supports under resourced youth ages 12-29 through group and one-on-one mentoring. The goal of mentorship programming facilitated by AOTG (typically 12-week in school programs) is to provide under resourced youth with the motivation, guidance, skills and connection to resources they need to thrive in life. The program was founded in Toronto, Ontario where it has served thousands of youth since 2011. The organization has recently moved to Eastern Nova Scotia where they plan to have a tremendous impact as well. Recently, from May – June 2023, the program was launched at a junior school in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, serving 12 boys who had behavioural issues in school, and were disengaged from school. The program led to them becoming more engaged with their school community and participating in various programs in their broader communities. Teachers and school administration also reported better emotional regulation skills and discipline from majority of participants. Through the facilitation of an environmental scan Phase 1 of this project will position the organization with in-depth knowledge of the current supports, programming and resources offered to under resourced youth in Eastern Nova Scotia, so that Ahead of the Game is aware of who to align with and how to position themselves to have a significant impact on youth and their communities. The second phase of this project will include a search for funding opportunities resulting in the creation of a funding strategy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Erin Austen;Jonathan Hood

Student:

Partner:

Ahead of the Game Youth Mentoring Organization

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Diego Zenteno – Borealis Geothermal

Geothermal energy, unlike other renewable sources, is available at all hours of the day, and can provide industry with a continuous supply of energy. However, one of the barriers to widespread geothermal use and the replacement of natural gas as energy sources in industry, is how to incorporate geothermal energy into the industrial system without affecting the complex thermal conditions involved.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ari Pandes

Student:

Partner:

Borealis Geothermal

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Integrating programming in school math education: a case study about pedagogical knowledge development

There has been an increasing conversation worldwide about the inclusion of “computational thinking” as an essential competency of the 21st century. This has led to the recent integration of programming in school education in many countries and jurisdictions, for example, in the school math curricula in Norway and Ontario. This study addresses a pressing need for research on teacher training in response to this new demand on teachers. It is a case study at a Canadian university in Ontario where future math teachers first learn to use programming as a meaningful tool for mathematics, and then transition to reflect on their learning experience and the support received in view of their future teaching careers. This study utilises future teachers’ course work as data and will welcome a Norwegian PhD student intern so as to take part in the data analysis as it aims to explore future math teachers’ development of pedagogical knowledge. This study is part of an extended research project (ongoing since 2017) focused on the learning and teaching of using programming as a tool in university mathematics education.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chantal Buteau

Student:

Partner:

University of Agder

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Education; Technology

University:

Brock University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Healthcare Training: Transforming the Future with Virtual Reality

Spandrel Interactive is a software development company that leverages leading-edge innovation and game design experience to build advanced virtual training simulations, products, sales experiences, and other interactive experiences for a wide variety of clients. Spandrel Interactive applies a user-centric design combined with value chain knowledge and discoverability features to cover multiple market perspectives to facilitate and develop successful projects. The company was founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in 2020 and has been developing multiple projects across the country. This project will create a business development plan that will help the organization expand virtual reality training nationwide. Virtual reality in training for healthcare professionals is a strong need and provides a plethora of training opportunities that professionals might not be able to access otherwise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Grant

Student:

Partner:

Spandrel Interactive Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Mécanismes corticaux de récupération du mouvement

Environ deux tiers des blessures à la moelle épinière touchent la région cervicale, causant une tétraplégie. Au Canada, 40 000 personnes ont une fonction de bras et de main réduite à cause de ces blessures. Même si certains conservent un mouvement volontaire partiel, la récupération est souvent limitée. Les nouvelles technologies neuroprothétiques cherchent à améliorer la récupération motrice, avec des résultats prometteurs pour la stimulation de la moelle épinière et du nerf périphérique. Cependant, ces méthodes n’engagent pas optimalement tous les chemins du mouvement volontaire. La recherche récente se concentre sur la stimulation des régions motrices du cerveau, montrant des améliorations immédiates de la qualité de la démarche et du contrôle des jambes. Notre but est maintenant de comprendre le rôle des réseaux corticaux dans la récupération de la fonction de la main/du bras et de développer une neuroprothèse pour améliorer le mouvement et la récupération à long terme.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marco Bonizzato

Student:

Partner:

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Optimizing hearing aids for speech intelligibility, sound quality and emotional speech

The lack of correspondence between the clinic setting and real world listening environments may explain, in part, why hearing instruments optimized in the clinic often result in poor adherence of hearing instruments in everyday life. To address the disconnect between communication in everyday listening situations where talkers often speak with emotion and audiology clinics where test speech materials consist of tokens recorded with a monotonic and/or neutral intonation, the proposed research will assess hearing impaired listeners with regard to speech understanding, emotion understanding, physiological response to emotional speech, and self reported experience of emotional speech. Different studies will focus on different aspects of the problem and with different
listening conditions (e.g., with hearing aids and without).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Russo;Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Frank Rudzicz

Student:

Partner:

Unitron Hearing;Phonak Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Biotechnology

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University; University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Harnessing the power of backscatter communication and multi-sensor data analytics for next generation smart building

In this proposal, we provide a smart building communication, configuration, and interaction solution. It includes: 1) a smart building network design with lightweight wireless nodes that can recycle ambient radio energy (visible light and electromagnetic waves) to save energy and do relays for each other as a large-scale robust interconnection; 2) an AI-empowered network node configuration without no human intervention for automatic smart building control; 3) a no-dead end interaction between human and in-building environmental data, through building-wide sensors/cameras and 360-degree online video.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jiangchuan Liu

Student:

Partner:

PanoMotion Technology Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Access to Psychologists and Social Workers and Workplace Absenteeism in Ontario

When workers experience poor mental health, it has significant costs for both individuals and the economy. It affects their overall well-being, income, and productivity (e.g., sickness absences). Workers with poor mental
health need access to adequate mental health services. Thus, this study examines the impact of seeing a psychologist or social worker for mental health reasons on workers’ absences in Ontario and looks at how this
differs between subgroups facing inequalities in accessing mental health support (e.g., males) and higher rates of workplace absences (e.g., hourly-wage earners). We will analyze data from a national survey on health and
apply robust health economics research approaches to estimate this relationship and how it differs by sociodemographic and occupation-related factors. By highlighting the potential for community-based mental
health providers to reduce absences among the workforce, this study can inform policy decisions on improving workplace mental health support and expanding public mental healthcare.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claire de Oliveira

Student:

Partner:

Mental Health Research Canada;The Ontario Psychological Association

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The Development of Chan and Pure Land Buddhism in the Middle Tang Dynasty

Looking back at the history of Buddhism in medieval China, more and more scholars believe that the Tang Dynasty was a significant turning point in the development of Buddhist schools. Before the mid-Tang Dynasty, various Buddhist sects developed well.However, the southern Chan and the Pure Land were the dominant sects after the mid-Tang Dynasty. Furthermore, “Chan and Pure Land dominance” has always been the norm in Chinese Buddhism after the Tang Dynasty. In this context, this study will mainly explore three questions: (1) What caused Southern Chan and Pure Land to stand out among the many Buddhist sects of the Tang Dynasty? (2) How to understand the relationship between Southern Chan and Pure Land that they unite with each other and attack each other? (3) How to understand the regional incongruity and regional difference between Southern Chan and Pure Land Development?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jinhua Chen

Student:

Partner:

Zhejiang University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Avalanche awareness among snowshoers and winter hikers on the North Shore Mountains

Snowshoers and winter hikers have received little attention from academic research. As a growing community of backcountry users, it is not well understood to what extent they travel in avalanche terrain, what level of avalanche safety training they possess, and where they get their information for undertaking winter backcountry trips. This study addresses these concerns by designing and conducting a survey of snowshoers and winter hikers at a popular mountain resort just outside of Vancouver, B.C, Canada. The goal of this study is to analyze and understand the characteristics of snowshoers and winter hikers, to create better avalanche safety products and messaging, and to create safer experiences in the winter backcountry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascal Haegeli

Student:

Partner:

Avalanche Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Creating a scalable model for optimizing terrestrial & mangrove tree counts and survival estimates using computer vision

In efforts to offset carbon emissions, many companies have recently invested in tree planting efforts; planted
trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store that carbon as they grow. The amount of carbon a
tree can store depends on a variety of factors, including tree size, species, and whether the tree is alive or dead.
In large scale tree-planting efforts, like those performed by Veritree, estimating carbon offset accurately requires
these factors to be recorded for a vast number of trees. This time-intensive process can be shortened by
developing “computer vision” algorithms which can automatically detect trees and extract their features from
smartphone images. Using computer vision, this project aims to increase the rate at which Veritree can survey
their tree populations, ultimately providing a more comprehensive assessment of their planting efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jess McIver

Student:

Partner:

Veritree

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Next Generation Fuels and Fuel Additives

There is a need to develop renewable fuels derived from biological sources that have chemical properties that are similar to petroleum-derived fuels. We are investigating the use
of chemical building blocks made by bacteria that may be used as fuel additives to improve the cold weather performance of biodiesel, or directly as fuels if chemically converted to
hydrocarbons. The bacteria of interest can synthesize natural polyester polymers called polyhydroxyalkaonates (PHAs) from low cost ag-industrial by-product (“waste”) streams.
Short chain length (sd-) and medium chain length (mcl-)PHAs can be synthesized by different bacteria and these polymers can be depolymerized to C4 to C6, and 08, ClO, and
012 3-hydroxy fatty acids that can be converted to methyl esters, methyl ethers, alkanes, and/or alkenes, which will be evaluated as potential fuel additives for biodiesel, or converted to hydrocarbons to make “green-gasoline” or bio-jet fuels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Sorensen;David Levin;Nazim Cicek

Student:

Partner:

Myera Nu-Agri-Nomics Group Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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