Event Experience Design - Outreach Focus

eHacks Events is a non-profit dedicated to providing interdisciplinary learning experiences to post-secondary students across the country. To facilitate this mission, we run competitions and events with workshops, networking, and mentorship to help students collaborate in cross-functional teams and build new skillsets.Our flagship event, eHacks at Western University, is coming up in February, and we are looking for ways to improve our event experience for our competitors, sponsors, mentors, judges, and organizers. This role will also include outreach efforts to external stakeholders, like workshop hosts, to ensure they build cohesive workshops that fulfil eHacks' mission.You'll be tasked with using design thinking methodologies to identify the pain points of our stakeholders from past events, and identify ways we can solve them. Using these insights, you'll create event resources (e.g. templates, rubrics, etc.), a comprehensive itinerary, and programming that will amplify our mission. You'll also create marketing materials to promote your incredible improvements to our competitors and get them excited for eHacks at Western University. You can expect to learn the following: The design thinking process and how to identify user needsHow to prioritize the needs of various stakeholders to spend resources in the most impactful way possible. Attention to detail and project managementOral and Written CommunicationHow to communicate effectively via promotional channels (e.g. social media, print, etc.)

ML/Backend Software Development Project

Hi there! We are looking for a student interested in software development and working with a cutting-edge REST API. The project aims build critical components to our mental-health support platform like authorization and authentication, RDS security, data pipelines and ML models! The students will be assisting a team of 4 senior software developers, an experienced product and design team and multiple industry leading advisors.At Honest Empathy, we are fixated on improving mental healthcare by crafting immersive therapeutic journaling and using AI to reinvent support groups. Together, let’s improve mental wellness and make isolation a thing of the past!Project Requirements:Use technologies such as Node.js and Python to build the Honest Empathy REST APICreate documented API endpoints to power critical application features.Automate and streamline build processes to deploy apps faster and without any disruptions to the usersImplement new features such as data pipelines, third-party user authentication, and much more.Build production ML and AI models using the current data pipeline to provide new insights to our usersUltimately, the goal is to ensure a successful public launch by executing an effective software development strategy. Help us employ REST API practices, improve application security, and effectively create a platform that is powered by AI and ML.If you resonate with our vision to make mental healthcare accessible for all, and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you!

Social Budgeting Application

In this project, we are going to design an application for users who are interested in building a financially secured future.Budgeting application helps us to make a secure life by providing a tool to learn how to balance our income and expenditures and also make better financial decisions.This opportunity is useful for students who have desire to learn about Application Development and Budgeting Techniques. There is a chance to implement whatever they have gained during their studies in the real workplace.

Shopify Software Development

We would like frontend developers to collaborate closely with designers and our broader product team to optimize site speed, UX/UI. You’ll use the latest web standards in React, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.Students should be prepared to:Be a product-minded developer who cares about the "Why" - Why build this feature? How will we measure impact?Have a passion for efficiency and collaboration, with the ability to establish great relationships with other teams, across time zonesHave a passion for how their work drives to high-converting outcomes