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NOTE: The three top solvers will receive $100 each. The first 25 solvers to submit complete and detailed responses will receive $20 each.
Have you or has one of your friends gone through an experiential learning/co-op program that combines classroom-based education with practical work experience? We want your input on redesigning these experiences. The world of work is changing and co-op programs need to evolve as well.
What is a co-op? Cooperative education (or co-operative education) is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op," provides academic credit for structured job experience.
Sample current co-op models for reference:
We are looking for your ideas to redesign the program with two objectives:
• For majors (like engineering and design) where co-ops ARE a standard feature in many universities, we want new ideas to serve the changing needs of students and employers.
• For majors (like liberal arts) where co-ops ARE NOT a standard feature, come up with co-op program ideas that could be beneficial to both students and employers using some of the characteristics below.
Explore these characteristics and feel free to evaluate other characteristics you identify:
• New types of work arrangements: gigs, part-time, remote, cross-disciplinary roles
• New types of employers: technology companies, startups, incubators, self-employed, self-initiated projects
• New types of payment: success-based, task-based, challenge wins, equity
To solve, use the above information to tell us: (1) how to dramatically improve existing co-op structures for programs where they are common and (2) how to make co-op programs beneficial in majors where they are not common.
We are looking for truly innovative and different ideas, NOT incremental ideas that improve the current model of co-ops. Imagine the features of a program that would make students choose a university offering this co-op program over others.
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Submissions will be graded on the following criteria:
- Meets Deliverables
- Creativity
- Clarity
| Top 3 share $300 | Next 25 share $500 |
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Dr. Janelle Christine Simmons Liberty University | |
| $120.00 |
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Jake Jarvis Stlcop | |
| $100.00 |
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Aaron Barrera University of Florida | |
| $20.00 |
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Sumana Mahata California Institute of Technology | |
| $20.00 |
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Abhijit Singh Visvesvaraya Technical University | |
| $20.00 |
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Gunvir Kalra Queen's University | |
| $20.00 |
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Lisa Nguyen University of British Columbia | |
| $20.00 |
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Barnett Ofori University of Mines and Technology | |
| $20.00 |
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Christopher Adjei-Frimpong University of Mines and Technology | |
| $20.00 |
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K Q University of Calgary | |
| $20.00 |
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Bolanle Dahunsi Louisiana State University | |
| $20.00 |
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Adithya Santhosh Madras University | |
| $20.00 |
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Francis Daniel Santia Harvard University | |
| $20.00 |
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Kaelan Lupton Queen's University | |
| $20.00 |
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Dyllan Hancott Yorkville University | |
| $20.00 |
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Meenu Kumari | |
| $20.00 |
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Mohan Krishna Yarramsetty usc | |
| $20.00 |
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Giri Sivakoti Northwest Missouri State University | |
| $20.00 |
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Abhishek Singh WBUT | |
| $20.00 |
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Brian Wynder Ursinus College | |
| $20.00 |
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Manisha Daruka Rajasthan University | |
| $20.00 |
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ANKUR KUMAR Visvesvaraya Technical University | |
| $20.00 |
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Joshua Yeboah Ansong University of Mines and Technology | |
| $20.00 |
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Janeth Kibuta university of manitoba | |
| $20.00 |
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Susan Kownacki Indiana University of Pennsylvania | |
| $20.00 |
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Priyadarshani Singh |
