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TRU Co-op Winter 2025: Real-World Innovation in Tourism, Business & Tech

Coop 1000
Open Closing on January 14, 2025
Thompson Rivers University (TRU)
Thompson Rivers University (TRU)
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Larry Iles
Larry Iles
Experiential Learning Coordinator
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Timeline
  • January 20, 2025
    Experience start
  • February 12, 2025
    Mid Project Check in
  • April 19, 2025
    Project Final Submission
  • April 19, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
8 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Canada
Non profit, Large enterprise, Small to medium enterprise
Business services, Government, Environment, Business & management, Travel & tourism

Experience scope

Categories
Accounting Financial services Software development Market research Hospitality, tourism & culinary arts
Skills
research financial acumen computer systems data analysis accounting event management tourism biology
Learner goals and capabilities

My Career Management Class at Thompson Rivers University seeks proposals for several 14-week projects from various organizations with project needs in tourism management, event planning, digital marketing, IT programming, finance, sustainability, public relations, and business operations. Organizations need only to present their real-world problems to solve and groups of students or individual students will select the projects to work on for the term of the experiential learning opportunity.

Bring one or more students from Thompson Rivers University enrolled in Co-op Education to work with you in a project-based experience. Students are available for 30 hours (throughout the course) for the project experience from (Jan 20th to April 18th).

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Intermediate levels
20 learners
Project
30 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Teams of 2
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Deliverables will vary depending on the scope of the project. The student should complete 30 hours by April 18th, 2025

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
  • January 20, 2025
    Experience start
  • February 12, 2025
    Mid Project Check in
  • April 19, 2025
    Project Final Submission
  • April 19, 2025
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Our learners are capable, motivated, and prepared to contribute effectively to your organization through real-world, project-based work. By partnering with students from Thompson Rivers University (TRU) through the Riipen platform, companies will benefit from a diverse range of skills, fresh perspectives, and innovative solutions tailored to their needs.

Here’s what companies can expect when working with our learners:

Practical Knowledge and Skills

  • Industry-Relevant Expertise:
  • Students come equipped with knowledge from various disciplines, including business, tourism, health sciences, education, technology, and the arts.


Technical Skills:

  • Depending on their field of study, students can offer technical abilities such as:
  • Tourism Management
  • Accounting
  • Data analysis and interpretation
  • Marketing and social media strategy development
  • Research and report writing
  • Financial modeling and budgeting
  • Software development and IT support


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.

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

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.)

Commit to a minimum of one hour per week, over 10-12 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.

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.

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