{"id":24263,"date":"2017-04-10T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=22710"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:59:08","slug":"alexandras-blog-working-innovation-centre-bayview-yards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2017\/alexandras-blog-working-innovation-centre-bayview-yards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra's Blog \u2013 Working at the Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Alexandra's Blog \u2013 Working at the Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Offsite Work Days: Working at the Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So I’ve got good news \u2014 I get to work once per week at a really cool place. Have you ever heard of an innovation centre? In short, an innovation centre is a place through which entrepreneurs, startups, grant programs, etc. can work collaboratively in one work space that facilitates the sharing of ideas. They have a lot of shared workspaces that include well-lit board rooms filled with ergonomic chairs and flat-screen televisions. The centre even has a seating area that features a very inviting, casual workplace hammock. You may be wondering: “hey Alex, what does this have to do with your job? Aren’t you an English student? Don’t you work for the federal government?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you may remember from my last post,<\/a> I work for a commercializations program that buys state-of-the-art technology from innovators and tests it in a government facility. This place is actually really useful for our program to make connections within Ottawa’s innovation ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now \u2014 let’s talk about working off site. At first, I was a little weary about working at the innovation centre myself since, as a student, I wasn’t sure if I was the best person to represent the program I work for when speaking with entrepreneurs who may be future applicants. However, I decided to go with the flow and look at it as an opportunity to further improve my people skills and spice up my week. I have to say that in my experience, taking opportunities like this is a very important part of the co-op experience. I find that pushing myself really boosts my confidence and reminds me that I’m really a valuable member of my team. I genuinely look forward to working in a new environment once per week \u2014 and not just because of the delicious food and kombucha from the in-house LUNCH caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Offsite Work Days: Working at the Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards So I’ve got good news \u2014 I get to work once per week at a really cool place. Have you ever heard of an innovation centre? In short, an innovation centre is a place through which entrepreneurs, startups, grant programs, etc. can work collaboratively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[341,25,849],"tags":[370,153],"class_list":["post-24263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alexandras-blog","category-student-blogs","category-student-voices","tag-alexandra","tag-student-blog"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53663,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions\/53663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}