Center for Innovative Technology

I was here at the Center for Innovative Technology for a training class that took place Feb 5^th through Feb 8^th. The company that was providing the training is not located in this facility but leases the training room for specific classes.
The building itself is absolutely beautiful. The technology? Not so much. Innovation. Not at all.
Now I’m sure from all the security, like having to be buzzed in to the parking area, that there is great (and very cool) work being done in the tall building on the grounds by the companies housed there. However, there is a «public» space in the shorter building where companies rent out classrooms or the auditorium for events that is almost comical for how technologically backwards it is.
The classroom we used was just a room with some generic table and chairs set up. The projector was on a cart in the middle of the tables with a big extension cord running along the floor from a wall outlet. To participate in the class, we had to bring our own laptops because the facility does not have computers in the classroom. We connected to the Internet through a very weak WiFi connection that was so slow it hampered our ability to perform the lab exercises that relied on that connection.
We were each given a $ 10 coupon to use for lunch in the building’s cafeteria which was not a good experience. We quickly learned to avoid anything other than the salad bar (which was actually not bad) and bottled soda/​water. One day I made a mistake of grabbing a pre-​made chicken salad sandwich to go with my salad. It had obviously been a leftover from a previous day as the top piece of bread was stale and the bottom piece was a mushy mess as it had absorbed all the moisture from the tomatoes. I noticed that no one from the big office building came there for lunch.
Again, the facility is beautiful and might be nice to visit for a presentation in the auditorium but otherwise this facility really doesn’t have much to recommend it.