Looking for a chance to make a difference while developing your skills?
Background
Nova Scotia is in a period of rapidly rising costs. The cost of housing and cost of living has led to a tightening of budgets for food, and students are facing pressures to be able to meet their basic needs. Student unions have reported a consistent increase in student reliance on food banks and some campuses are experiencing a mismatch between student’s cultural food preferences and the availability of culturally relevant foods on university campuses.
Nova Nourishment will give student interns an opportunity to explore potential solutions!
What is Nova Nourishment?
A project which hires students to assess the state of food sovereignty and food security on their respective campuses, and to develop solutions to those issues!
Your Dal AC Sandbox, Cultiv8, will hire 4 interns to:
Key areas of focus for the prototyping internship include:
What is a Nova Nourishment Internship?
A part-time work opportunity which runs for the entire 2023/2024 school year..
Pay and required time investment: $20 per hour, 10 hours per week for 24 weeks (Weekend Event will include 10 hours of pay). Total time commitment:
With focus on the question “How might we build food security and sovereignty for students on our campus?”, the internship commitment will be to learn, apply, and integrate innovation theories and methodologies by designing and testing solutions specifically for students on your campus.
Interns will work in a team of 4, will have the opportunity to develop new skills and test creative solutions to food security and sovereignty problems that matter for students, and they will connect and learn from teams from other campuses tackling similar issues.
Takeaways from the Internship
Who should apply?
You should apply if …
Key to the effectiveness of the team is a group whose participants each take lead on one of Storytelling and Communications, Evidence and Evaluation, Engagement and Networking, and Ideation and Prototyping:
Applications closed. Stay tuned for select interns doing amazing work!
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After an introduction to kitchen basics, you will begin by following recipes to create products, and will proceed to build your own recipe and product, gain feedback from others and improve your product based on their feedback. The program will culminate with a showcase where you present your Cultiv8 CHEF journey and products to a panel of enthusiastic supporters!
Successful applicants must attend all sessions; this is a team-based program and it is important to show-up. Please consider your schedule and ability to commit to this before you apply - it is important that we give the limited spots to those who will be at all sessions.
Cultiv8 CHEF will be run in the Winter semester. It will be one evening per week and will last 8 weeks. Keep an eye out on our social media and our website for the next registration intake.
Apply here: https://forms.office.com/r/kF3d5NAaCp