Innovative Projects Realized

Âge cinématique des associations stellaires jeunes du voisinage solaire

Lors de mon projet de stage, j’utiliserai les données de la mission Gaia, qui mesure la distance, le mouvement propre et la vitesse radiale de millions d’étoiles, afin de retracer l’orbite galactique d’étoiles au sein d’associations cinématiques jeunes du voisinage solaire et déterminer l’époque de leur formation. J’étudierai aussi leur évolution au fil du temps ainsi que les possibles interactions avec d’autres associations. Étudier les associations jeunes est une approche avantageuse pour en apprendre davantage sur les étoiles individuelles au sein l’association. Ces étoiles sont d’un intérêt particulier, car ce sont des cibles de choix pour la recherche et la caractérisation de planètes extrasolaires, notamment avec le télescope spatial James-Webb.

iGen Education Group – Business Strategy Project – TBC (2)

iGen Education Group opened in the Kerrisdale Community of Vancouver, British Columbia at the end of 2018. Previously, Sparks Academy offered high quality enhancement programs in STEAM learning for students aged 3 to 15. iGen Education Group has expanded to include three learning pathways and provides a range of choice when it comes to the places and spaces where children can engage in challenging STEAM learning, while emphasizing curiosity and creativity. Sparks offers a varieties of STEAM programs during the day for pre-schoolers, after-school programs for school aged children, various camps (i.e. summer, professional development days), and participation in local, provincial, as well as national competitions. Our various programs, such as the Compass Outdoor Education, offer STEAM learning outdoors activities to meet our students’ needs for physical development and purposeful engagement with our environment. iGen Education Group believes in a holistic development and engages students outdoors to inspire them and support them to explore interests and find their passion, aiming towards a full potential discovery. We try to creates critical thinkers, increase interdisciplinary competency, and enable the next generation of innovators.

Production of New Balsam Fir Lines Using Somatic Embryogenesis

Christmas tree growers in Nova Scotia are experiencing high demand for trees along with increasing pressure to adapt to changing climate conditions. The Christmas Tree Council of Nova Scotia (CTCNS) is the parent organization of three regional Christmas tree associations representing over 300 Christmas tree growers who grow primarily Balsam fir. These growers need trees well-suited to Nova Scotia climates with preferred traits like enhanced needle retention and later flushing dates. Both testing and production of these trees requires cloning new tree lines and somatic embryogenesis is the most promising method for doing so. However, current protocols for clonal propagation of Balsam fir using somatic embryogenesis are inefficient, and few viable lines of trees have been produced. Working with the CTCNS, this project will optimize the production of locally-adapted Balsam fir and result in at least 70 new lines for testing. These improved clonal propagation methods and access to a wider selection of trees will allow Nova Scotia Christmas tree growers to meet consumer demand and respond quickly to changing climate conditions.

Modernization and Streamlining of Internal Infrastructure and Processes

A software development project to modernize the internal infrastructure of the company across 3 different streams of work: build infrastructure, release pipelines and content management solutions. The company will benefit from this work by streamlining internal processes that are both error prone and manual in their nature, through the adoption and development of modern technologies and solutions. By removing the manual nature of these processes, we aim to reduce problems, miscommunications, and stresses – and to reduce our time to react and identify problems in the releases of our software and their content updates.

Strategic Planning and Benchmarking in Minor Hockey

The Guelph Minor Hockey Association (GMHA) is a not-for-profit community sport organization (CSO) that has serviced the City of Guelph with youth hockey programming since 1948. Currently, 1,500 youth are enrolled in GMHA programming. Although hockey is known as Canada’s sport, the landscape has been changing. Many of the country’s largest minor hockey associations have reported regular declines in participation over recent years with the most significant losses coming from age groups between 14 and 18 years old. The decline in youth hockey participation has been linked to the sport’s extensive participation costs which has led to an overall lack of diversity and equity deserving stakeholders not feeling welcomed. While the GMHA has been able to maintain consistent registration levels, the call remains for Canadian sport organization to become more athlete-centred in their governance by showcasing their commitment to innovating programming and ensuring that all opportunities are safe from maltreatment. Thus, the goal of this internship is to support GMHA’s strategic planning process.

Financial Literacy and Mentorship for Indigenous Communities

IndigenousTech.ai Corporation (IndigenousTech.ai) since inception has been focusing on improving the quality of life for Indigenous peoples living on reserve. Through financial literacy training, housing reviews, credit projects, implementations of new technologies for remote communities, and mentorship programs, we have been able to establish an excellent network and trust with over forty (40+) Indigenous communities across the country and continue to grow our footprint. This project will specifically involve hiring two new interns for the summer to train them on financial literacy and technology certification programs to then deploy to twenty Indigenous high school students (for July and August) and over 500 Indigenous people on-reserve across the country.

Validation d’un procédé a ultrasons pour la destruction de mousses

Sanexen un membre de la famille LOGISTEC est un fournisseur de solutions environnementales de premier plan depuis 35 ans. Grâce à la restauration de sites, les projets majeurs, les infrastrustures, la gestion des sols contaminés et matières résiduelles ainsi que les technologies de l’eau Sanexen continue d’offrir des solutions innovantes à sa clientèle industrielle et Municipale, ainsi qu’à d’autre entités gouvernementales. Les ingénieurs et scientifique de Sanexen, de concert avec l’équipe interne de recherche et développement, continue d’explorer et de mettre en place de nouvelles technologies pour faire face aux problèmes environnementaux sans cesse grandissants. Au cours des dernières années nous avons développé un procédé de traitement des eaux contaminées par des polluants persistants tels les composés per-et polyfluoroalkylés (PFAS). Ce procédé utilise entre autres le principe de « Foam fractionnation ». La nature des PFAS fait qu’ils s’accumulent à l’interface eau-air des bulles d’air qui, en remontant vers la surface, créée une mousse à la surface de l’eau dans les réacteurs où se fait le traitement. Cette mousse, concentrée, doit être recueillie, liquéfiée puis disposée. L’étape de liquéfaction (Ie rabattage des mousses) dans les conditions d’opération utilisées représente un défi technique.

Environmental Educator Assistant

With CPAWS, I will work raise awareness of the conservation efforts and to facilitate opportunities for citizens to become involved in conservation efforts in Manitoba, by doing outreach at special events. I will also assist in the delivery of an outdoor learning program to help nuture a fun and involving learning environment for children in their own playgrounds where they feel comfortable. This includes curriculum development and leadership roles. Finally I will help support the expansion of the Outdoor Fun events which provide meaningful opportunities to connect Manitobans to nature. In this role I will assist nature based workshops and delivery of outdoor excursions.Overall, this project will help Manitoba’s youth recover from Covid-19 pandemic, decrease screen reliance, create connections with nature, raise awareness of the need to protect land and help increase the impact of CPAWs.

Fort McKay Photo Archive Project

The Fort McKay Métis Nation (FMMN) is the self-governing Métis Nation representing the interests of Métis people in the community. Members of FMMN are concerned about the cumulative impacts of industrial development on the land, air, water and wildlife in the Fort McKay area. As active users of the land, community members have intimate knowledge of the local ecosystems, rivers, water-bodies and wildlife populations and are eager to contribute this knowledge to address and prevent environmental impacts. Furthermore, the pace of industrialization has altered the local landscape and ecosystem upon which the practice of harvesting rights depends. FMMN members are eager to document their knowledge and traditional use of land within specific project sites in order to protect the community’s heritage, cultural and historic resources, and Aboriginal rights.

One of the ways that the Nation citizens can document their long history in the region is through community artifacts including historic photos, documents, videos, beadwork and other family heirlooms. The goal of the project will be to document the existence of the community collections and, where possible and relevant, collect stories related to those items.

Integrated engineering using web computing platform

ASETS-CA Inc creates software for engineers and launched a first of its kind cloud based Integrated Design Suite™ (IDS™). IDS™ is a multidisciplinary CAD, simulation & engineering design platform that helps Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) & end owners companies accelerate their early-stage engineering 10X faster. Customers using IDS™ benefit from the rapid deployment of engineering resources lowering effort time and costs related to engineering projects. ASETS anticipates parallel projects from US & Canada based in the next forthcoming weeks and this project would effectively benefit ASETS in effective validation phase with customer.

Imitating Artist’s Brushstroke Style by Machine Learning Methods

Acrylic Robotics is a robotics startup based in Montreal, on a mission to use technology to make fine art accessible to the general public. To make fine art accessible, this project focuses on the implementation of a larger robotic arm to recreate artists’ artworks at scale. The intern will be responsible for the development of painting functionality for a new robotic arm, refinement of the robotic painting output, and pilot testing of the robotic system with both internal and external clients. To increase the quality of the paintings, brush strokes should be similar to humans. For this reason, we want to integrate the original artists’ style by collecting brushstrokes (hand brush motion) samples and training a generative model. In other words, after collecting data from artists, a stylized brushstroke generator model will be trained to improve the quality of the paintings. The intern will use their expertise to implement complex control algorithms to recreate the delicate movements of a painter with large robotic arms. The intern will work with both clientele and company personnel to ensure that all desired needs of the client are understood and further translate these needs into control functionalities within the robotic capabilities.

Développement d’un prototype de masque de photolithographie à micro-pixels actionnables (II)

Développement d’un photo-masque pour lithographie digitale dans les procédés de micro-fabrication de semiconducteur.