{"id":3802,"date":"2022-04-08T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupe.jinnove.dev\/leveil-de-la-passion\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:25:37","slug":"awakening-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/blog\/awakening-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakening of passion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With its community involvement, Shift aims to make programming accessible to everyone and encourages them to shape their ideas, regardless of their level of expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-importance-of-community-involvement\">The importance of community involvement<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether participating in events, providing training or sponsoring various local institutions and community groups, Shift is confident that its involvement benefits both community members and the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to attend a conference put on by a fellow entrepreneur. The latter emphasized the importance of social involvement by mentioning that community and entrepreneurs often go hand in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is important that local entrepreneurs get involved with the community, if we don&#8217;t do it, who will?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2013 Fran\u00e7ois Proulx, president of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.1200-degres.com\/en\/,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1200 Degr\u00e9s<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"starting-with-education\">Starting with education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, Shift teamed up with Shawinigan College&#8217;s computer science department to provide financial assistance to students who participate in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shawinigan.info\/intercollegial-jeuxvideo-valleyfield-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">l\u2019intercoll\u00e9gial de cr\u00e9ation de jeux vid\u00e9o de Valleyfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/img\/blog\/equipe-valleyfield-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This type of event is greatly beneficial to students. They have an opportunity to apply concepts seen in class, allowing them to deliver a concrete end result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 James Hoffman, teacher at the computer science department of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeshawinigan.ca\/,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coll\u00e8ge Shawinigan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Hoffman explains, this type of event offers students a chance to put their knowledge into practice in an environment that is closer to the job market.&nbsp;<strong>It is by focusing on education<\/strong>&nbsp;that Shift wishes to give back to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IT is a great and promising avenue for realizing meaningful projects and transforming the way we interact with technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its community involvement, Shift aims to make programming accessible to everyone and encourages them to shape their ideas, regardless of their level of expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-resources","category-news-from-the-shift-group-press-release"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeshift.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}