Relocation Initiative - Where should we move?

Students will conduct a competitive analysis of different schools across Ontario to determine where eHacks' value proposition would generate the highest ROI.Today, eHacks is based out of Western University. Western has a brilliant pool of students and an unparalleled focus on business-focused technical education, due to the unique partnerships between the Western Faculty of Engineering and the Ivey School of Business. We've benefitted greatly from this collaboration, since entrepreneurial minded students flock to Western and engage with eHacks' events (for the most part, our annual hackathons). However, there are now 4 annual events at Western that accomplish similar goals to eHacks.If we were a typical business, we would compete and try to re-capture our lost market share. However, we're a non-profit. We are determined to relocate our operations to another school that needs it most, to help them build a strong entrepreneurial eco-system. The question is: which school?

Bookkeeping

eHacks is going through our first income tax filing, and our team needs assistance compiling our books and analyzing our financial performance. The goal of this project is to create a balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and commentary on our financial performance over the last fiscal year.

Workshop Materials

eHacks, regardless of where we go in the future, will always focus on education. Every year, we brainstorm through dozens of workshops to offer students on a wide breadth of topics from UI design, to programming, to making a business plan. In this project, you will work with a team to create workshop materials, complete with an instructor's guide, to be added to our workshop collection. Our goal is to create a library of workshop resources which can be delivered by eHacks across many different venues.

External Partnership Creation

In this project, students will work to achieve eHacks mission through partnerships with other non-profit institutions or other social enterprises.

On-Campus Marketing Plan

Much of eHacks' operations on campus is run by campus ambassadors and student volunteers. The goal for this project will be to create marketing materials and a marketing plan to recruit the next team of superstars that will run eHacks at our partner universities. The marketing plan can be for one school, many of them, or all of them!

Online Course Curriculum Development

The goal for this project will be to outline a set of key concepts and learnings, of the students' choosing, that will ultimately comprise an immersive online experience for students to explore technology, innovation, and business. The end product of the students' work will be a script which can be transformed into an online course with the assistance of voice actors and our team of programmers.

Web Design

eHacks' website has not been updated in over a year, and reflects our previous mission of exclusively running events at Western University. As the organzation expands and our mission evolves to focus on broader issues, like technical education and career readiness, our website will need to grow and expand as well. The objective of this project will be to bring us one step closer to a finalized design for our next version of the eHacks website. The activities required to accomplish this "next step" will be based on where our team is at on the design, but may include updated graphics, user experience studies, writing cover for the website, and/or assisting us hone our strategy and determine the best primary foci for the website.