In the Okanagan valley, where vineyards have long shaped the regional economy, a first-year college student named Nadia Alves walked into a professional beverage lab and, within weeks, created a recipe that a real startup chose to bring to market. Her placement at the BC Beverage Technology Access Centre — part of a federally supported work-integrated learning initiative — connected a women-owned dealcoholized wine company to research infrastructure it could not have accessed alone. The outcome is modest in scale but significant in what it reveals: that the boundary between student and profess