Skilled, motivated students from Red River College's ACE Project Space workshop are ready to support your business.

The ACE Project Space is a collaborative, interactive workspace where students, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and corporations come together to turn bold ideas into real-world solutions. With guidance from experienced staff and faculty, students from the Business Information Technology, Data Science and Machine Learning, and Information Security programs work directly with industry partners to build prototypes, develop products, and design services ready for market.

Participating employers gain access to curious, capable, and career-ready students who are eager to apply their skills to meaningful challenges. Projects are divided into three distinct phases, each requiring 60 hours of student work. Upon completing each phase, students are paid a $1,400 stipend—fully covered through Riipen and the Government of Canada’s Innovative Work-Integrated Learning (I-WIL) Initiatives program. There is no cost to you.

This is an exclusive, invite-only opportunity. If you were not invited to participate, your project match request will be declined.

Project timeline:

Request to match your project: May 20 - 30, 2025

• Program administrators will support you in setting up your projects and matching them to the experience.

Onboarding session: May 26 at 2pm CST/ 3pm EST.

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Students invited to join: June 2 - 6, 2025

• Students will be assigned to your project in teams

Project start date: June 9, 2025

Max end date: July 25, 2025

• All projects must be completed to be eligible for payment

For more program details, see our landing page for employers

Projects require clearly defined deliverables outlined in the project description. Deliverables include the working documents and the final project uploaded for review and payment. This may encompass source code, presentations, marketing materials, etc. 

To validate completion, students submit deliverables as uploaded files with a reflection note. Tangible proof or samples of completed work are necessary, with redacted deliverables if under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).