LangOptima takes part in the University of Warwick’s TeaMWork programme as a partner organization. It is one of the student programmes we are currently part of. We put a real challenge in front of a multidisciplinary team of students, drawn from Warwick and partner universities around the world, and mentor them through it for four weeks, the way they would be led on a project in industry.
The programme
TeaMWork is the University of Warwick’s online international experience programme. It connects organizations with multidisciplinary teams of students from Warwick and partner universities around the world, Monash University among them, spanning Australia, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The teams work together on a real project over four weeks, and LangOptima takes part as one of those partner organizations.
We bring a genuine project or business challenge from the work we do: enterprise AI, knowledge graphs, language technology, or growth. It is real work, not a set exercise written for a classroom.
Six to eight students from Warwick and partner universities, across different disciplines and time zones, form a team for the project. Many are working with people they have never met, in another country.
The team works online over four weeks. Students start with an onboarding workshop to build their employability skills, and have access to an organization mentor throughout. That is the part we lead.
Our role
As the organization mentor, we set the brief, meet the team through the project, and give the kind of direction and feedback students would get on a real engagement. The aim is simple: a piece of work the team is proud of, and four weeks that feel like industry rather than coursework.
We introduce the challenge, the context, and what a good outcome looks like, then help the team shape a plan and split the work across their disciplines.
Regular check-ins to unblock the team, react to what they find, and keep the work pointed at the outcome. We answer questions the way a client or manager would.
The team presents what they built. We give honest, useful feedback on both the work and how they worked together, the kind they can carry into internships and first jobs.
For universities & institutions
If you run a university, course, or student programme and would like your students to work on genuine enterprise AI, data, language-technology, or growth challenges, mentored by someone doing the work every day, we would like to hear from you. TeaMWork is one of the programmes we currently take part in, and we are open to working with other institutions and programmes too.
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