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Sprint to Innovate: 3 Day Challenge

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Red River College Polytechnic
Red River College Polytechnic
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Cristy Kubara
Strategy Coordinator
(1)
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Timeline
  • January 31, 2025
    Experience start
  • February 2, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
1/1 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Manitoba, Canada
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Information technology Leadership Organizational structure Operations Sales strategy
Skills
competitive analysis business consulting research design thinking
Student goals and capabilities

DO YOU HAVE A TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS CHALLENGE YOU ARE TRYING TO SOLVE?

Sprint to Innovate powered by Canada Life brings together students of various disciplines (technology, business, entrepreneurship, etc) from Manitoba post-secondary institutions to learn about innovation, and collaborate in a fun and exciting challenge to build a minimum viable prototype for you in just two days (the weekend of January 31 to February 2, 2025).

Sprint to Innovate is about learning innovation, being innovative, building deeper relationships, problem-solving and developing solutions to real business challenges. We know that employers are looking for employees to be innovative, and this event will allow students the opportunity to nurture their inner innovation and help your organization in the process.

Industry and Students can learn more www.rrc.ca/sprint

Students

Students
Bootcamp
Intermediate levels
15 students
Project
48 hours per student
Students self-assign
Teams of 6
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Teams of 4 to 6 students will choose from available business challenges provided by industry.

Students will then work together with support from mentors to create a solution, including developing a prototype to be presented to judges on the final day.

A prototype is a simple experimental model of the proposed product used to learn from. Prototypes range from low-fidelity (paper-based) prototypes that are used to explain concepts all the way to high-fidelity prototypes that have functional elements with more detail. Teams may consist of technology and business students.

Project timeline
  • January 31, 2025
    Experience start
  • February 2, 2025
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

PROVIDE A BUSINESS CHALLENGE:

Student teams will be provided with a list of business challenges that they will have a choice between to work on. This is where you come in! We are asking a few different companies to provide a general business challenge and students would create a solution. We are looking for projects that can be worked on over 1 weekend, and gives students the opportunity to be innovative. The commitment from your company would be as follows:

  1. Prepare a Challenge support document outlining what the problem is, and why you need it.
  2. Assign at least one person to speak about the problem and be prepared to answer questions about it from a student team on Friday, January 31.
  3. Available to answer questions from the teams on Saturday, February 1
  4. Attend and judge the Challenge Final presentations on Sunday, February 2 at RRC Polytech to see what solutions the team came up with. Choose one team to advance to the Final Presentations.
  5. Attend our Networking and Training event on Thursday, January 30.

Previous project examples have included:

  • How might we use gaming and gamification to increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes? – Submitted by Applied Computer Education at RRC Polytech
  • How can we increase the number, and the diversity, of individuals entering careers in tech through Technology Apprenticeships? – Submitted by Tech Manitoba and RRC Polytech

EVENT SPONSORSHIP – $1000

We are looking for sponsors to provide $1000 towards prize money to the winning teams.

Your $1,000 sponsorship would earn you:

·Recognition throughout the event

·Recognition on event materials

·Social media recognition

·The opportunity to be a mentor to a team throughout the weekend.

If you would like more information, please send us a request to connect on Riipen.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
  • question 1

    Attend the final presentations on Sunday to see what solutions the team came up with.

  • question 2

    Available to answer questions from the teams on Saturday.

  • question 3

    Assign at least one person to speak about the problem and be prepared to answer questions about itfrom a student team on Friday, January 27 (afternoon).

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