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ACE Project Space - Industry Project Summer 2024

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Red River College Polytechnic
Red River College Polytechnic
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Level UP Program Team
Level UP Program Team
levelup@riipen.com
(1820)
Timeline
  • August 15, 2024
    Experience start
  • August 17, 2024
    Experience end
Experience
32/36 project matches
Dates set by experience
Agreements required
2 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
Categories
Digital marketing Software development Artificial intelligence Data analysis Competitive analysis
Skills
presentations marketing materials innovation non-disclosure agreement (intellectual property law)
Learner goals and capabilities

The ACE Project Space is an interactive workspace where students, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations and corporations collaborate to bring unique ideas to life. With the guidance of experienced staff and faculty, students of the Business Information Technology, Business Technology Management and Information Security programs work with industry clients to create prototypes, products and services that can be introduced to the market.


ACE Project Space - Industry Project

Demonstration of skills acquired in the student’s respective program of application development, data science, security, and IT Operations


Phases and Activities

Initiation

  • Project kickoff and upskilling
  • Requirements gathering
  • Project Charter
  • Proof of concept technical solution

Design

  • Infrastructure set up
  • Initial development of basic components
  • Wireframing
  • Determine database structure or data models
  • Initial security evaluation

Develop & Test

  • UX testing
  • Feature development
  • Feature testing 
  • Data labeling 
  • Model training
  • Vulnerability assessment

Solution Launch & Transition

  • Technical manual
  • User manual
  • Code handoff
  • Solution presentation


Skills development

  • Depending on the program of study a number of potential skills are developed
  • Coding a comprehensive business solution based on client requirements
  • Creating and training data models for predictive analytics
  • Assessing application vulnerabilities and suggesting mitigation
  • Creating business documentation outlining the requirements of a technical solution
  • Communicating with a client regarding the progress of the technical solution
  • Facilitating meetings with clients
  • Performing analysis on client needs and designing a technical solution


Learners
Workforce Development
Beginner levels
200 learners
Project
60 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Individual projects
Up to 5 team(s) or 5 learner(s) per project.
Each learner can join up to 3 teams
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Project Goal: Work together with a group of peers that may belong to diverse programs to create a technical solution to a client problem following a standard methodology.

Project timeline
  • August 15, 2024
    Experience start
  • August 17, 2024
    Experience end
Project Examples

Project Examples:

Automating manual workflows to create efficiencies in a business environment

Creating commerce solutions for digital products

Servicing social enterprises to assist in affecting positive change in the community

Performing predictive analytics on business data

Categorizing and cataloging information using machine learning


Questions:

Are your an Indigenous entrepreneur

Does your project  have an Indigenous focus

To participate, you may not be an organization that engages in partisan political activities; or a federal, provincial, territorial or municipal government or government agency; or a publicly funded post-secondary institution. By checking this box you acknowledge your company meets this requirement.

To participate, you must not be a member of the House of Commons or the Senate of Canada. By checking this box you confirm you meet this requirement.


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

What is the postal code of your organization?

What is the size 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 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.

To participate, you must not be a member of the House of Commons or the Senate of Canada. By checking this box you confirm you meet this requirement.