Polytechnic students pitch marketing strategies at ‘Tecconnect Challenge’

For an 11th year students at Lethbridge Polytechnic are in a competition to solve a real-life business challenge. The Tecconnect Challenge has students creating marketing material for a local entrepreneur.

They must then pitch their plan to a panel of marketing experts. This year student teams from the Multimedia Production and Digital Communications and Media programs were given five hours to create the marketing strategy for a local Indigenous food truck that’s operated by a former Polytechnic culinary student.

A winning team gets chosen at the end, and their work is utilized for the respective client.

Landon Hickok

Landon is a recent graduate of the Radio and Television program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton. He previously obtained a diploma for Christian Ministries at Home Church Bible College in Red Deer, Alberta. For years since, he worked on church media with Home Church and later with City Life church in Leduc, Alberta, working on event live-streams and video productions. At NAIT, he was part of the student-run NAIT NewsWatch news program. He led topics ranging from school athletics to local news and international headlines such as the October 7 attack in Israel in 2023. Outside of news, he spent internships in Edmonton sports with the Oilers of the NHL and the Stingers of the CEBL. Now in Lethbridge, he’s here to produce stories to help inform all and to honour Jesus Christ with his work.

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