Build a Learning Community on our Discord Server

We have a Discord Server (Success Coach) that we'd like to build up. We're seeking students in marketing, psychology, sociology, social work, learning & development, and other related areas to: attract other students to our Discord Server = Success Coach create a launch plan and work towards launching Success Coach once it has some followers and some content coordinate with our coaches to address questions that students raise in the channels to build out content on our channels like #mentalhealth #anxiety #timemanagement #college etc

Integrate our Discord Server into our Native Webapp

We have a Discord Server (Success Coach) that we'd like to integrate into our native webapp written in React / JSON. Students should be prepared to: learn about Discord back-end explore front-end React / JSON to render the Discord Server

Create Logic Branching Games in Hp5

We have Hp5 games, interactive quizzes, wordfinders, and so on, but we'd like to introduce some logic branching games based on scenarios. For example, if you encounter Situation A in the workplace, would you do B or C? Students should be prepared to: map out the logic and craft a few scenarios write the Hp5 code integrate the Hp5 code into Wordpress which is the interim step to rendering it in our React webapp

End-User Visual Dashboard with Badges & Analytics

We use Metabase on the back-end of our React code-base tracking how many videos are watched, how long they are watched, how many e-Learning courses are completed, what the quiz scores are, etc. But we don't have a nice way for the end-user to visualize what they've completed. So, we need a visual dashboard. And we'd like the end user (learner) to collect and showcase their badges on their dashboard. Students should be prepared to: create a few UI/UX designs to present the analytics as a visual dashboard ideally, begin coding the Dashboard for the end-user

Career Readiness TikToks

We'd like to make learning open and fun via TikTok. We're open to new ideas but our vision is to create an ongoing series of "back & forth" dialogue where students make a TikTok (15-20 sec) asking questions about career readiness or how to use soft skills like EQ, time-management, professionalism, critical thinking, etc in work situations. We'll respond with a STEERus TikTok saying "This is how / this is what we suggest ..." and have some fun making this creative and educational for all who watch our TikToks. Maybe the format is "Dear STEERus - How do I ... ?" Maybe the format is "And then this happened ..." or something else! We're open to fresh thinking! Students should be prepared to: research (or take direction) on topics to describe student experience scenarios (most around career readiness) film 15-20 sec video (at least 1/wk throughout the semester) add captions / music / clipart to the TikToks to make them interesting

Healthcare Training Needs (Nurses & Soft Skills)

Health Information Technology- Identifying and evaluating new software applications and/or technologies to meet needs in the healthcare industry. Students can look at the emerging vertical for health care. What are the desirable product features for healthcare industry, specifically for nurses (since they offer nursing degrees) Desirable product features? Would you expect that we would offer CEUs? Cover what aspects of content? What would be the 10 most desirable course topics for nurses? Is soft skills certification desirable for nurses? How much time would you anticipate spending getting soft skills certification? What course materials/components do you anticipate receiving? What features would characterize each component, in a perfect world? Video on demand? Live lecture Work book? Tests? Time with a coach? Graded homework assignments? Other? For your ideal product, do you feel that it should be provided to you by your university while you are still in school? by your employer through your alumni association obtained on a subscription basis per student What should the pricing be for certification? What should the pricing be for access to STEERus training? Research would include gathering and assessing primary data from nursing students and recent nursing graduates. Deliverables to STEERus would include: data gathered and instruments/methodology they used to gather the data their analysis of the data (methodology, results, conclusions and suggestions based on the analysis)

Security Audit of World's First Soft Skills Academy

Nobody likes hackers. Well, except for other hackers and even then there seems to be a lot of fighting for world domination. We need a security audit. As a talent development company, we take creating safe spaces very seriously. That means how we act, what we do - and certainly how we keep our learners' and coaches' information secure. We mostly have the former part covered, but we need your help with the latter part on the IT security bits. As a perk, students who do this project are invited to be part of the first cohort in the history of the world (no kidding - it's that awesome!) to earn a Soft Skills Certification badge for Linkedin and your resumes. Certification runs Oct 26 - Dec 15 (with an extended grace period to complete everything by Jan 15, 2022). Data Management- Developing a data security and protection policy, reviewing data architecture, and recommending improved management practices. You could do a complete assessment of our physical data security and policies and rate our vulnerabilities. Students should be prepared to: work with React / Java Script / Muks for video optimization plan a security audit simulate a user experience to test for flaws in security logic report on the status of the security audit conducted make recommendations on how to improve user security if time permits, code the changes recommended to improve security

Load Testing

Load testing doesn't sound all that glamorous - but it's really important. And if you get the chance to work with AWS on an optimization project, doesn't that make it more interesting?! As a perk, students who do this project are invited to be part of the first cohort in the history of the world (no kidding - it's that awesome!) to earn a Soft Skills Certification badge for Linkedin and your resumes. Certification runs Oct 26 - Dec 15 (with an extended grace period to complete everything by Jan 15, 2022). Students should be prepared to: work with React / Java Script / Muks for video optimization plan a load test on our development server simulate a user experience report on the status of the load tests done make recommendations on how to improve the user experience if time permits, code the changes recommended to improve performance

Soft Skills Academy v2 - How do we Grow?

As social entrepreneurs, we seek to enable everyone with the "advice they wish they had" at no charge. Yes, of course having experienced executive coaches create content is a key part of learning - and we have this in our Soft Skills Academy - but students learn best from each other. We've created a product for an audience (students) that don't feel that they need (even though their professors and bosses and every report on the internet says soft skills are needed). And they have no ability to pay. How do we grow? What's our v2.0 strategy? We have a decent online presence, but low social engagement. Why isn't our ongoing marketing effort successful? What can we change? What should our outreach look like? How do we improve our marketing and communications? Any ideas for a social media strategy that better leverages our own social impact to make soft skills available to the overlooked and underserved communities who need them most to change their life and career success trajectories? Student(s) should consider doing the following: Providing recommendations and creating a new business strategy to grow revenues Developing a market analysis of competitors. Analyzing the viability of a new product extension or new market Analyzing our online presence make recommendations on how / where we improve offer specific suggestions for campaign ideas, marketing outreach, ways to generate press and buzz

Soft Skills Coaching Bot

We use Metabase on the back-end of our React code-base. We want to create a "Coaching Bot" that greets learners in our Soft Skills Academy. Think of the Bot like a Concierge fielding basic questions about navigating the Academy, booking time with a coach, and simple soft skills tips. The Bot requires intelligence to "know" when it's time to pass the conversation over to a human coach. As a foundation, the open source Eliza Therapy Bot could be a good NLP model here. Custom code could be built upon Twillio to expedite development. Whatever questions are collected by the Concierge Coach Bot could be repurposed and released daily or weekly (or some other frequency) like TextStory doled out one line of text at a time via SMS by creating a Python/Twillio program to run in parallel to the Bot. Students should be prepared to: research the Eliza therapy bot code Concierge Coaching Bot input tips (.xlsx source) test the code release strings of messages via SMS