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SONAMI Women in STEM

SONAMI Women in STEM

Diversity in the manufacturing industry is essential for success. It provides a range of perspectives and ideas that can help to identify problems and solutions, as well as create new products and services. Additionally, it helps to create a more inclusive environment where everyone can feel accepted and respected. We…

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Project Profile: My Active Snacks

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My Active Snacks is a Toronto-based- snack food start-up expanding the marketing for healthy snack food options. The challenge Support with recipe development and ingredient sourcing to develop a tasty snack puff that meets the strict keto diet requirements. The result Fanshawe College’s Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI) researcher Josie…

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Project Profile: Meadow Lynn Farms

In the centre, a glass full of strawberry juice. Strawberries laying on the table around the glass of juice.

The Challenge Simcoe, Ont.-based Meadow Lynn Farms is a mixed farming enterprise that includes cash crop, dairy, CSA market gardens and strawberries. The farm has been family-owned for 73 years. The owners wished to capture a niche market for the thousands of pounds of wasted strawberry seconds (imperfect, under-or over-ripe…

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Olivia Uildersma – Student Showcase

Meet Olivia Uildersma, a Mechanical Engineering Technology – Design & Analysis student at Conestoga College Conestoga Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Olivia made a big difference in helping SMEs grow through Research & Innovation across southern Ontario. Why did you apply to work in Applied Research at your school? What first…

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Giving plants a voice

Left to right: Daniel Hacikyan, EarthOne; Sidhanth Pereira, EarthOne; Sherif Abdou, AMIC; Edward Garcia-Torres, AMIC Research has shown that it’s beneficial to talk to plants but wouldn’t it be nice if the plants could talk back? Leveraging support from the Southern Ontario Network for Advanced Manufacturing Innovation (SONAMI), EarthOne Inc….

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