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Canada’s business and post-secondary leaders face many challenges. Working together to solve these challenges is more critical than ever and will strengthen Canada’s economy along the way.
BHER is as a convener and connector, bringing people together to create: A thriving Canada where everyone has an opportunity to reach their potential.
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Through Work-Integrated Learning we allow post-secondary institutions to connect daily with industry leading professionals, bringing opportunities and value for all members.
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BHER welcomes new interns and a new executive coordinator
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The Business + Higher Education Roundtable is thrilled to welcome four summer interns. BHER received over 580 applications to our virtual summer internships call. We see that as a testament to BHER’s appeal to talented young people who want to make a difference. And to the increasing recognition of the role of WIL in helping students develop the skills they need to move between the classroom and work. COVID-19 continues to alter the playing field. Post-secondary students continue to report labour market disruption, cuts to their hours, lost jobs, and canceled or delayed WIL placements. It's not surprising, then, that...
A student applied-research project, completed by 4 graduates of SAIT’s Software Developer program, won the research poster award at the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency’s inaugural Traceability Symposium. They worked with Sherry Yang, a software developer with SAIT’s Applied Research and Innovation Services (ARIS) department, on a capstone project called “Chuckwagon Check-In” during their final term at SAIT in the spring of 2015.
The group was supported by the World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) to develop an automated high-tech system that would monitor the number of races, condition and transportation of the horses participating in chuckwagon events. “For students, this kind of project gives them a real-world experience,” says Yang. “They need to work with a client, professionally, and learn how to communicate and report on their progress.”
The integrated check-in and management system developed by the students used web and mobile technologies, low-frequency (LF) radio frequency identification (RFID) and customized programming to solve the problem. “During the project, they got to develop an android app,” says Yang. “So this really expanded their learning.”
Sherry Yang, a student at SAIT
