New Product Design: Prototype

Studentboard is creating a comprehensive platform to build, sell, and teach courses, and collaborate globally. The student(s) will research and develop a prototype, focusing on various products. We believe this project will require: Researching existing products and functions (simple, easy to use, minimizing clicks and pages). Developing a prototype of a recommended product design by completing UX and UI work. Figma will be the main prototyping tool used due to easy accessibility and collaboration ability. The final deliverables include: A prototype of the recommended design for a product. As the platform will have many moving parts, we will work with the student(s) in week one and two to identify a project outline based on contract length and time commitment. Potential products fall under five main modules including the following: Instructor and institution user profile: includes introduction page, course builder, enrolment management, and teaching tools Student profile: introduction profile (to add skills, education, interests etc.), and a place to enrol in and pay for courses, and learn. Landing page and Marketplace: Students search for courses, institutions, or instructors using basic search bar, filtering, and finding promoting courses. Peer to peer collaboration tool Four modules will be broken down into sub-tools that each student team will focus on based on student availability. Prototyping may occur on Figma or any other chosen software the student/team is interested in using. Studentboard Inc. will pay for appropriate tools required. Level up provides a $1400 stipend to each student: Studentboard seeks students interested in working 60-70 core hours (approximately $20-$23 per hour) with additional hours dedicated to mentorship and team networking. Work will occur on a part time basis and is flexible based on the student's schedule. One to two meetings (maximum of 2-4 hours total per week) will need to be attended for mentorship, team check-ins, and reporting on work progress (included within the 80 hours max). Slack and Zoom will be used to communicate, casual work attire, and students may be located anywhere in Canada (remote work)!

GetintheLoop - Student Outreach and Engagement

We are a mobile app that helps connect local businesses to local consumers and with the goal of making it easier and more rewarding for people to support local businesses. We are looking for a team to help us reach out to the University Student population within Halifax to educate and inform them about the free mobile app and encourage them to use the platform to discover and support local offers, events and experiences. We will be focusing on Students as we feel this is a consumer group who will greatly benefit from the platform (free app, easy to use, help learn about a new city, discover, places to go and things to do in Halifax, save money while supporting local) We will look to engage this demographic through various means; digital, print/traditional media and face to face. We are looking for a team of creative outgoing individuals who will help us find unique ways to communicate and engage with students and will help drive our target of increasing our consumer adoption rate within the HRM. HOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE? 3 TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT/TEMPS DE TRAVAIL PAR ÉTUDIANT: 70 hours KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: Face to face engagement Engagement via social platforms Assist in the organization and outreach of events IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS: * Student Outreach & Engagement Specialists x3 FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET: 150 app downloads per student 15 qualified meetings booked IN WHAT LANGUAGE WILL THIS PROJECT BE PROVIDED/DANS QUELLE LANGUE CE PROJET SERA-T-IL FOURNI: (English/Français) English PROJECT MENTOR NAME/NOM DU MENTOR DU PROJET: Iftekhar Ahmed

Fibrilex - Marketing + Research

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: As a young start-up we are looking for assistance from intrapreneurs to validate our business assumptions around value proposition, target customer, and impacts through secondary research and customer interviews. This will help us to achieve important business milestones and to refine our business model. The intrapreneurs will search online from relevant sources (literature, industry associations, company websites, annual reports,...) for answers to specific questions, collect, and analyze their findings. Relevant information can be extracted and used for social media posts and newsletter content. They will also communicate with candidates for customer discovery interviews and assist in the execution of these interviews by minute taking. Fibrilex is envisioning a world where we source our raw materials more sustainably and with the least impact to the environment and future generations. We are working towards providing alternative sand sources to the construction industry to mitigate global sand shortages brought about by overexploitation. We care about sustainability, circular economy and gender equality. As a female-founded and led B2B company, we know firsthand what it means to be an underrepresented group in almost every meeting. HOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE? 2 TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT: 70 hours KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES: Online research and data collection Literature review Data analysis/visualization Content writing for social media IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES: Market & Research Analyst Marketing Coordinator FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES: Written summary of findings, with graphs/maps where appropriate (max 2 pages) PROJECT MENTOR NAME: Mirjam Mai

CoHousing NL - Marketing

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: We are looking to create a holistic and complete marketing strategy, campaign, and template that incorporates our commitment to affordability, diversity, and inclusion. This project will support the development of marketing strategy recommendations and a campaign for the pilot project - the creation of NL's first affordable and diverse cohousing community - as well as create a marketing research, strategy, and campaign design template that supports the development of the open-source knowledge-sharing platform that will serve grassroots housing projects and affordable housing projects across the province (and eventually all of Canada!). In our workplace, we use a sociocratic governance model - this means we don’t use hierarchies and there are no managers. Instead, we use consensus decision-making and give those involved in our project the authority and autonomy to make decisions in their areas of work. We ensure everyone’s voices are heard in our meetings by conducting ‘rounds’ - this allows everyone to get a say in what we do and creates an open space to share thoughts. With everything that has happened the past year, we definitely understand Zoom fatigue so we make meetings more fun by building in social activities in our full group meetings!! We can’t wait to bring on new students to help us make our project a reality. If you are interested in learning more about sustainable communities, affordable housing, and community-led housing development, this is the project for you!! KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: Creation of a one-year marketing strategy recommendation and campaign; Adaptation of the strategy and campaign research/recommendation report into a template to be shared to community organizations; Creation of graphic design (using templates) and marketing materials aligned with the recommendations report; Creation OR update of website to align with the recommendations report through the use of website templates; Compilation of best practices for accessibility-focused design; and Compilation of research into local diversity and community needs. IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:* Marketing Strategist: Responsible for the planning and development of a one-year complete marketing strategy including researching marketing budgets and activities; coordinating with team to incorporate their findings/work into the plan; researching types of marketing strategies; and creating a one-year marketing strategy recommendation. Diversity and Community Outreach: Responsible for creating community connections, learning the needs of community partners and gathering input/feedback, and determining what needs to be considered in our marketing plan to ensure we reach a diverse group of people and organizations. Inclusion and Accessibility Coordinator: Involves consulting with local groups focused on accessibility and universal design, seeing what inclusion needs come from community groups, and developing a report outlining best practices on creating inclusion in housing communities and best practices for ensuring accessibility-focused designs in affordable housing. Website Designer: Responsible for the review of the current website, working with the Marketing Strategist to identify website needs, gathering input from community members on what the website should look like, and completing the creation of a new website or an update of the current one using a pre-made website template through Wix or SquareSpace. Marketing Designer: Responsible for the generation of content to be used for the marketing campaigns developed through this project. FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET: One-year marketing strategy recommendation and campaign; Strategy and campaign research/recommendation report templates; Marketing materials; Update of website; Best Practices for Accessibility-focused Design Report; and Research report on local diversity and community needs.