Student experiences
Community development in Zambia
Economics and BCom co-op students Rachel Lynch and Liam Grigg spent a semester working in community development in Zambia, helping local farmers learn the basics of running a small business. Learn how an international co-op term can work for you by visiting http://www.uvic.ca/coopandcareer/abroad. New funding will allow us to send 38 more students on work terms across Southeast Asia over the next four years! To learn more, visit https://www.uvic.ca/coopandcareer/events/news/current/2018-02-27-QEscholarfunding.php
Engineering co-op students create TreeRover, the tree-planting robot
Many students spend their summers tromping through slash-piles and battling blackflies to replant Canada's forests. Two University of Victoria engineering co-op students took a different approach: they built a tree-planting robot with the idea of supplementing the humans' hard work. “TreeRover" is the brainchild of two third year UVic electrical engineering students, Nick Birch and Tyler Rhodes. As part of an entrepreneurial co-op work term, they merged their love for the forests of Vancouver Island with their passion for sustainable technologies by forming a company—Iota Enterprises—to build this prototype of a reforestation robot. Learn more about co-op: http://uvic.ca/coopandcareer
My co-op work term with Kesho Trust in Tanzania
UVic biology co-op student and Queen Elizabeth scholar Alex Papp spent a co-op work term as a development intern with The Kesho Trust in Tanzania. His work supported community members to develop alternative income streams while protecting the natural environment from burning practices. The Kesho Trust, an NGO, works to build community-based understanding and action to strengthen the relationships between people and the environment through a variety of local projects in Tanzania.See more videos from the Co-op video stories playlist on YouTube.
My UVicLife blog
How am I supposed to get a job with no experience?
February 7, 2018
Every student I talk to is thinking more and more about their career and where their major could take them. They’re all saying that the available jobsrequire months or even years of experience just to meet the requirements for the position. If entry level...
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5 things I regret NOT doing while I was at UVic
January 22, 2018
I’ve officially been finished with classes for about a month now, and I’ve had some time to reflect on the glory years of mydegree. Four and a half long years of blood, sweat, tears, and Ramen seemed to pass by in the blink of an eye, but there are a few...
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Applying Gender Studies to the Workplace
January 17, 2018
As a Gender Studies Major, I often get asked, “What can you do with a degree in Gender Studies?“. My response: pretty much anything you want to!…except maybeopen heart surgery, but I am sure someone will figure that out too haha. But the truth is, what...
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