Riipen | University of Victoria INSPIRE: Level UP

University of Victoria INSPIRE: Level UP

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Riipen Level UP 🚀 - University of Victoria INSPIRE

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Daniela Damian She / Her

Educator

Experience

21/22 project matches

Dates set by teams

Agreements required

22 projects max per company

Payment by funder C$1,400.00

Preferred companies

Canada

Sole proprietorship, Startup, Family-Owned, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise

Any industries

Experience scope

Skills

empathy profiling (computer programming) site reliability engineering business communication collaborative communications

Learner goals and capabilities

Welcome to the University of Victoria INSPIRE Level UP, powered by Riipen! This innovative program connects employers with Canadian post-secondary students for 60-hour paid projects. Students receive $1,400 CAD from Riipen upon successful project completion.

In the Inspire program, students will work in teams of 2 -5 to ideate, prototype, and implement a STEM solution to a local community problem. Students will leverage frequent interactions with industry mentors, their community partners, and use Design Thinking to assist them throughout the development process. Additionally, students are given ample networking opportunities where they will present their work to the local community and receive feedback, and participate in discussions.

Learners

Workforce Development

Any level

100 learners

Project

60 hours per learner

Educators assign learners to projects

Individual projects

Up to 7 team(s) or 3 learner(s) per project.

Each learner can join up to 6 teams

Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverable is typically an MVP (minimum viable product) of the intended solution to the community problem.

Project Examples

Requirements

In the past students have developed software to assist those facing acquired brain injuries with the Victoria Brain Injury Society, or developed a design of a rainwater catchment system to help communities impacted by drought etc. For a full list of project examples please visit www.inspireuvic.org.

The main goal of the project should be to inspire students about the power of engineering via community good. Students are also going to be exposed to a wide variety of community issues, thus we also aim to educate students further about the community’s most pressing issues.

See our recommended project template here.

See more project creation considerations here: Creating a Successful Level UP Project for Employers.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

What is the size of your organization?

What is the postal code of your organization?

Please provide your business number (BN)

If you do not have a 9-digit business number, what is the reason?

Is the leadership of your organization (founding employees/executives/etc.) a member of at least one of the following demographic groups?

To participate, you must not be a member of the House of Commons or the Senate of Canada.

To participate, you may not be an organisation that engages in partisan political activities; or a federal, provincial, territorial or municipal government or government agency; or a publicly funded post-secondary institution.