Student Opportunities

Camosun Innovates is committed to applied learning and empowers students in a way that makes education meaningful. Working with Camosun Innovates gives students the real world skills and experience they need when they go out into the employment world, as well as providing unique opportunities for companies to gain access to new product ideas, new technology, and new employees.

Student-industry partnerships

Camosun Innovates has a clear and consistent focus on direct student engagement, and sees work with students from all programs and disciplines as central to our success.

Connecting with students

At a glance we connect with students through tours of the Babcock Canada Interaction Lab and associated shop space, where we provide students with an idea of what might be possible with regard to collaborative work in all forms of innovation.

Camosun Innovates is committed to working with groups of students over defined periods of time, taking them through the ideation, design, and implementation process while focused on specific challenges.

Featured student projects

A screen of a digital sonography machine, and a description on the function currently being used.

Sonography Virtual Education Tool

Camosun Innovates creates a virtual education tool to aid with accessibility and distanced learning for nursing students.

A comparison of a virtual fireplace valve, and the real physical valve

Virtual Plumbing Appliance Education Tool

Camosun Innovates helps encourage and support distanced learning during the pandemic.

Student capstone opportunities

Camosun Innovates helps sponsor student capstone projects that connect academic learning with real-world problem solving. These projects bring students together with faculty and Camosun Innovates staff to imagine, design, and build solutions using our applied research facilities and resources.

Capstone collaborations are shaped by the needs of our industry partners. They often lead to real impact—ranging from startup ventures to full-time employment for students. Direct engagement with students is a cornerstone of our approach to applied learning, research, and work-integrated education.

BC Games torch

Crescent Machining

The BC Games Society () is looking to replace their "games torches". The intent of the torches is to provide the host community with a tangible asset that they can use to rally community enthusiasm around the upcoming Games. As such, the torches will be used as a prop in photo opportunities and may be paraded through the community.
Crescent Machining — Mech Eng Capstone 2021

Curated video repository

Team Zero

For this project, we are creating a web application that will allow users to access and categorize videos from a private Vimeo playlist. By providing a custom video curation interface, this application will serve as an efficient way of curating large amounts of video content. Once the project is completed and deployed, it will be used as a tool for building school curriculums about residential schools and the Witness Blanket.
Team Zero — ICS Capstone 2020

Virtual reality motion actuated racing simulator

Team CDF

As it stands, Virtual Reality can be sickening. Discordant sensory stimuli between what you see and what you feel can cause nausea. With Camosun Innovates, our Virtual Reality Motion Actuated Racing Simulator builds upon the game, iRacing and the VRX Simulator. We will track the steering wheel and a players’ hands for overlay. These additions will reduce adverse reactions, improve immersion, and enhance the overall experience.
Team CDF — ICS Capstone 2019

Future plans for students

Many students have come to work with Camosun Innovates directly supporting grant-based projects, and many of them have stayed with us full time as CUPE employees. The future will see an increase in capstone engagement and a greater focus to both design thinking education and facility tours, and we desire to make all connections the basis for future collaboration.

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