Virtual Internship Opportunity: Computer Science

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BC Hospice Palliative Care Association
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pablita Thomas
Executive Director
(10)
3
Preferred learners
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
Categories
Data analysis Communications Information technology
Skills
application development communication software interfaces application programming interface (api) virtual event technical support process improvement computer science zoom (video conferencing tool) research
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 2 computer science students or teams.

The primary focus for the student will be: build and execute a conference platform for a virtual event and manage the IT, audio and technical systems

  • Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application.
  • Software Architecture Development - Architecting the software of a new product; improving the architecture of an existing system; porting an architecture of one system into another.
  • Application Programming Interfaces - Redesigning an existing API to simplify it; changing API technologies; designing a new API; creating or updating public-facing documentation.

Our goal at the end of this experience is:

Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application.

  • Software Architecture Development - For the student(s) to provide a solution to our architecture issue to ensure optimal performance and sustainability.
  • Software Evaluation (e.g. new CRM) - For the student(s) to help us choose the most ideal software to invest in based on our user and/or organizational needs.
  • Application Programming Interfaces - For the student(s) to help us redesign an interface or help us implement a new API

Other duties the student may complete could include: (indicate other duties as exemplified below)

  • Software vendor research and evaluation
  • Assisting with other process improvement projects
  • Unit and integration testing
  • Responding to IT/Service Desk requests

We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Zoom, email and Google suites

Student's primary contact: Cheryl Sewell - Project Coordinator

Secondary contact: PAblita Thomas - Executive Director

How will you support learners in completing the project?

Students will be working with a team of 5 people to get the event up nd running virutally off of the Pheedloop platform and Zoom

About the company
  • https://bchpca.org
  • 11 - 50 employees
  • Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Individual & family services

The BC Hospice Palliative Care Association is a open not-for-profit, membership organization, which has been representing individuals and organizations committed to promoting and delivering hospice
palliative care to British Columbians for over 34 years. Our members provide a broad range of hospice palliative care programs
and services to people in need across the province of BC and the Yukon who are dying, their loved ones who are grieving and caregivers. The services hospice societies deliver are accessible to all, regardless of the type of illness, age, sex, sexual orientation, race, culture and religious beliefs.