Project Term: Winter 2019
The traditional process of facilitating peer tutoring can be a daunting task for many K-12 teachers and higher education institutions. Due North, an educational technology startup, worked with our students to build a digital platform to easily recruit, organize, connect, and schedule peer tutors with tutees. This result-based application has since been implemented in a number of Manitoba schools.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
BTM students worked with the ACE department to build a robust change management system to minimize IT infrastructure incidents while providing processes and tools to maximize productivity for our students, faculty, ACE partners, and guests. Existing service desk solutions were investigated and evaluated. In addition, the students prepared wireframes for an alternative custom-built solution.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
Many private physiotherapy clinics have an increasing need for temporary physiotherapists, particularly within small rehabilitation practices. For smaller operations, the hiring process is time consuming and expensive.
Our BIT and BTM students implemented a web-based recruiting service (Temp PT) enabling clinic owners to post available work times and enable practitioners to apply for those times within the same platform.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
Establishments such as restaurants, pubs, and hotels often have TVs set up to provide customers with live news and sports entertainment. Taiv was created to replace broadcasters’ ads with targeted ads from the establishment. The original solution did not optimize ad placement during commercial breaks.
BIT and BTM students built a solution that integrates with an establishment’s point-of-sale (POS) data to fetch and analyze real-time purchases to improve ad placement.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
Applied Computer Education and the Creative Arts departments at Red River College formed a special collaboration to create a video game that showcases how the artistic and technical skills students are developing can be combined to create a video game. BIT, BTM, and Digital Media Design (DMD) students worked together to create Rusty Steam, a 3D side-scroller game prototype. DMD prepared the creative assets for the game while the BIT/BTM students incorporated the assets to develop the game.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
The Spence Neighbourhood Association works with the community to provide safety for residents, staff, volunteers, and the homeless. The system used for administering and organizing association staff, volunteers, and participants was taking valuable time away from important activities.
BIT and BTM staff built a system that enables staff to effectively collect, report on, and monitor attendance, supplies, food served, and program activities.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
BIT and BTM students worked with The Travelling Guardian to improve the companion booking experience on The Travelling Guardian website along with companion price estimates, traveller resources, and terminal maps.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
Filing a traditional divorce can be lengthy and expensive. Easy Forms is a collaborative project between Evans Family Law, our ACE Project Space students, and Business Administration students. Together, they designed, developed, and performed user testing on a web application to make uncontested divorces accessible to anybody who requires one. Our students’ solution takes the user from step one to printable legal papers in a fraction of the traditional time and cost.
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Project Term: Winter 2019
Go Oil, a local startup that provides 24/7 on-the-spot oil changes, wanted to recreate their website as their current one was not optimized for multiple cities. BIT and BTM students worked with Go Oil to create a customer database to support their new franchising model. The students assisted in moving the current web site to an updated back-end database and updated the front end design to enable a user experience supporting multiple cities.
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Each spring, RRC’s Applied Computer Education Department runs Technology Camps for high-school students of all genders and to middle-school girls out of the Exchange District Campus. The camps allow young people to explore different technologies through diverse hands-on activities.
In spring 2019, Red River College staff members, Stephen Jay, Cristy Kubara and Marnie-Leigh Boulet, brought the highly successful Technology Camps to three different schools in Brazil.
This unique opportunity came about after the Chair of ACE, Haider Al-Saidi, went with a delegation to Brazil in the fall of 2018. While there, he made connections with several schools that were interested in bringing the RRC Technology Camps to their students. After some follow-up communication, the camps were scheduled at the Pan American Christian Academy, Metodista Bertioga school and the Metodista school in Sao Paulo.
Similar to the Technology Camps in Winnipeg, the objective of the camps in Brazil was to show students what the Information Technology industry is all about and to potentially get them interested in a career in I.T. The camps also provided students with new material and experiences they may not have otherwise encountered.
The students who attended were a mix of male and female high school students (grade 10-12) and each camp had approximately 25 attendees. The day involved four different sessions that were one hour each, topics included, web development, database development, networking and web security. Stephen Jay taught each camp, while Cristy Kubara and Marnie-Leigh Boulet acted as E.A.’s.
Not only were the camps a positive experience for the students, but the instructors also came away with success stories that made it all worth it for everyone involved. “One of the schools we went to didn’t have a data projector, which meant we had to improvise. I was writing security injections on a whiteboard. Even though the technology was sub-par, the students were helping each other, they were learning and getting it,” recalls Jay. “At another school, there were a group of kids in the back row that were ‘too cool’ to engage. As the day went on, we were able to get their attention through technology.”
“Going to Brazil and meeting all the people was such a wonderful experience,” adds Kubara. “They are so warm and welcoming. The students were so excited and willing to learn. The first thing they would talk about was wondering about how cold it is in Canada, and ‘is it really cold?’ We showed them pictures of the snow and told them how we embrace the winters rather than hide away from it. Most of them said they weren’t afraid of the cold, because it would be a better life for them in Canada.”
At the moment there are no set dates for another round of Technology Camps in Brazil, but the schools and RRC instructors are both hoping to organize something as soon as next spring.
RRC Polytech campuses are located on the lands of Anishinaabe, Ininiwak, Anishininew, Dakota, and Dené, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.
We recognize and honour Treaty 3 Territory Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, the source of Winnipeg’s clean drinking water. In addition, we acknowledge Treaty Territories which provide us with access to electricity we use in both our personal and professional lives.