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Thompson Rivers University (TRU)
Thompson Rivers University (TRU)
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Larry Iles
Larry Iles
Experiential Learning Coordinator
(5)
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Timeline
  • February 21, 2022
    Experience start
  • February 22, 2022
    Project Planning Review
  • March 9, 2022
    Draft Deliverable
  • April 30, 2022
    Presentation to organization
  • April 30, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
7/5 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Startup, Social Enterprise, Non profit, Large enterprise, Any
Food & beverage, Entertainment, Manufacturing, Business services, Government

Experience scope

Categories
Digital marketing Public relations Social media marketing Communications Creative writing
Skills
advertising promotion sales & marketing marketing strategy research
Learner goals and capabilities

The Experience More initiative at Thompson Rivers University is seeking proposals for several 10-12 week projects from a variety of organizations that have project needs in the fields of digital marketing, public relations, and writing. Organizations need only to present their real-world problems to solve and groups of Bachelor of Arts, New Media, and Journalism students or individual students will select the projects to work on for the term of the experiential learning opportunity.

Bring on one more Bachelor of Arts, New Media, and Journalism students from Thompson Rivers University enrolled in the Experience More initiative to work with you in a project-based experience. Students are available for up to 50 hours (over the duration of the course) for the project experience from (Feb 1st, 2022) to (May 1st, 2022). Due to COVID-19 restrictions, student placements will only occur virtually.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
20 learners
Project
50 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Deliverables will vary depending on the scope of the project. The student should complete 50 hours with your organization by May 1st 2022

Typical final project deliverables could include:

  • Final project report
  • Digital Marketing Project plans
  • Completed data sets for unique project goals
  • Final presentations and supporting documents, manuals etc.
Project timeline
  • February 21, 2022
    Experience start
  • February 22, 2022
    Project Planning Review
  • March 9, 2022
    Draft Deliverable
  • April 30, 2022
    Presentation to organization
  • April 30, 2022
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Students in TRU's Experience More initiative come from a variety of educational backgrounds and can complete a substantial project for your organization over the experiential learning period.

Due to the variety of student educational backgrounds, project examples that students can complete may include, but are not limited to:

(1) Digital Market Research:

• Research a target market segment and/or consumer base for insights into best practices and marketing potential.

• Provide comparative analysis for a given market against other similar entities.

• Include recommendations and examples for business generation and outreach.

• Great for: start-ups, tech, finance, quite literally any type of company!

(2) Public Relations and communications

  • Perfect for a variety of organizations

(3) Data Analytics:

• Compiling, cleaning, processing, warehousing, etc. of any type of data relevant to your operations and your goals.

• Research on data tools and recommendations for how to automate, collect, house, and/or improve your future/ongoing analytics processing needs.

• Great for: healthcare, innovation, regulatory, sales, digital technology-focused companies, etc.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Be available for a quick phone call with the Thompson Rivers University Experiential Learning Coordinator to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course and explore additional opportunities for partnership with the University.

Virtual work engagement with students and provision of all necessary materials in order to set students up for project execution success, including any relevant context, data, examples of deliverables.

Commit to a minimum of one hour per week, over eight-10 weeks’ worth of group interactions with your assigned student team remotely. These meetings with you are likely to question/answer sessions or requests for additional information or clarification based on project content.

Commit to completing a short formative (midpoint) survey and summative (final) survey for the overseeing Experiential Learning Coordiantor at Thompson Rivers University

Commitment to providing feedback on project milestones (Project Plan, Draft Deliverable, Final Project Deliverable) and virtual attendance at students’ final project presentation.

Provide a dedicated contact to answer occasional emails or phone calls to address significant student questions in a timely manner (a 48 hour-response time.)