{"id":1265,"date":"2021-09-01T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:16:34","slug":"sprott-student-sets-out-to-grow-entrepreneurship-centres-reach-and-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/2021\/sprott-student-sets-out-to-grow-entrepreneurship-centres-reach-and-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprott student sets out to grow entrepreneurship centre\u2019s reach and impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kirsten Josling, a fourth-year Bachelor of International Business<\/a> student at the Sprott School of Business, is the new Director of Hatch<\/a> – Carleton University’s Student-Led Incubator and Service Centre. As the Director, Kirsten\u2019s main focus is to attract students from a range of different programs and disciplines to entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMaking entrepreneurship available to the mainstream is the way we\u2019re going to grow Hatch beyond what it is now,\u201d Kirsten said. \u201cWe want to introduce entrepreneurship to students who aren\u2019t in programs like business or engineering, for example, through things like social enterprise which is really near and dear to my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hatch supports Carleton students interested in entrepreneurship. They run an incubator program where they work with undergraduate students to flush out their business ideas and models, network with professionals, and build their companies. Hatch also organizes events, workshops, and networking opportunities throughout the school year to drive innovation and creativity in students.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cAll students are welcome to come to Hatch events,\u201d Kirsten said. \u201cMany have this impression that Hatch is only open to those who have a business or are thinking about starting a business, but Hatch is open to all those who are creative, innovative and interested in finding out-of-the-box solutions for real-world problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Furthermore, Kirsten, who also serves as the vice-president of finance for the Sprott Business Students\u2019 Society<\/a> is working to grow the relationship Hatch has with other groups on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are really excited to partner with the Sprott Student Consulting Group<\/a>. They have invaluable services and bringing those [services] to the Hatch cohorts is something we\u2019re going to try and initiate,\u201d she said. \u201cOn top of that, creating a really strong relationship with Carleton University\u2019s Innovation Hub is something I\u2019ve started working on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While details of the partnership with the Sprott Student Consulting Group are still being finalized, the collaboration between Hatch and the Innovation Hub will see \u2013 amongst other things \u2013 a range of events designed for students interested in entrepreneurship, such as innovation bootcamps, workshops, and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her father being an entrepreneur, Kirsten has long had an interest in entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following her first year at Sprott, Kirsten secured an internship with an e-commerce company based in Vienna \u2013 Indeco Design \u2013 as a front-end web developer. She is working with Indeco Design again, through the BIB internship, and is collaborating with startups. (BIB students spend the third year of their program completing an international internship and\/or study abroad.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeeing founders develop and start from nothing into something that\u2019s 10 times, or even 100 times, bigger than it was a year ago is really inspiring and very incredible to see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her time at Sprott, Kirsten\u2019s passion for social entrepreneurship grew through her involvement with Carleton\u2019s chapter of Enactus \u2013 an organization that uses the power of business to address social issues. Her time with Enactus also provided her with her first introduction to Hatch.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIf any of this speaks to you or inspires you, we\u2019re always open to having conversations with you,\u201d Kirsten said as a message to students, re-emphasizing that they don\u2019t need businesses to collaborate with Hatch. \u201cI don\u2019t have a business and I am the Director of Hatch, which shows that we\u2019re open to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kirsten Josling, a fourth-year Bachelor of International Business student at the Sprott School of Business, is the new Director of Hatch – Carleton University’s Student-Led Incubator and Service Centre. As the Director, Kirsten\u2019s main focus is to attract students from a range of different programs and disciplines to entrepreneurship. \u201cMaking entrepreneurship available to the mainstream is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}