Events and workshops Connect, Create, and Collaborate
Discover engineering through experience
The engineering department offers a vibrant series of events and hands-on workshops tailored for both aspiring high school students and our current engineering students. For prospective students, these sessions are designed to ignite curiosity, inspire innovation and provide a glimpse into the exciting world of engineering. For current students, these events foster collaboration among students and professionals, offer deeper engagement, connecting them to advanced technologies and real-world challenges to sharpen their skills and shape their professional future.
Women in Engineering
We hold an annual Women in Engineering event on campus in the spring. Girls from grades 8-12 are invited for a day of learning and exploring through hands-on engineering activities. Engage in a robotics workshop and competition, explore TRU’s Makerspace, create a button, use a 3-D printer, try out virtual reality, meet TRU engineering faculty and more! Registration for this event opens early March each year.
When: Spring Where: TRU engineering labs
Discover Days
Students in grades 10-12 are invited for an exciting day of discovering software and computer engineering. Students tour the engineering labs, TRU Makerspace and can explore two hands-on engineering workshops in the engineering software and hardware labs. Students may also have the chance to explore an engineering lecture with current TRU engineering students. This event is excellent for those students who have little or no knowledge of computer and software engineering or want to learn more and explore computer and software engineering as a career.
When: Fall and Spring Where: TRU Engineering labs
Engineering Connect
We strive to increase high school students’ understanding of computer and software engineering-related activities and to help them choose their discipline in either computer or software engineering profession.
The program targets students in grades 11 and 12, giving them the opportunity to try out various computer and software engineering experiments for technological engagement. Each experiment is two or three hours long with hands-on experience demonstrated by the engineering department members.
When: In-between September to April Where: TRU engineering labs
High school career talks
“Solving Today’s Problems to Create A Better Tomorrow” is presented to students in grades 10-12. The engineering advisor and a faculty member attend high school classes to discuss the software and computer engineering program at TRU, career opportunities and how to be a successful software or computer engineer. Presentations are around 30 minutes with a Q&A session at the end.
When: In-between September to April Where: TRU engineering labs
NASA Space Apps Challenge Let's build a better future, together!
Everyone is welcome to join us for the world’s largest global 48-hour hackathon right here at TRU. Prepare for an exciting weekend of innovation, creativity, and collaboration. The Engineering Department at TRU invites students, professionals, engineers, creatives, and space enthusiasts from all backgrounds to tackle real-world challenges using open science and data from NASA. Whether you're a coder, artist, storyteller, or problem-solver; there's a place for you here.
When: October every year Where: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
Engineering Engagement Workshop
When: Late October every year Where: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
Engineering Day Workshop
When: December every year Where: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
Past events
TRU Career Talks
We host career talks with industry professionals for current software engineering students to have the opportunity to learn, meet and engage with industry software engineers. Past guest speakers have been from Facebook, Microsoft and Huawei Technologies.
Applicant event
We invite fall applicants to a reception where potential software engineering students can meet engineering faculty, tour the engineering labs and TRU Makerspace, have lunch with faculty and enjoy a hands-on workshop.
