Nepal & Stewardship

Suchit Khadge is a SCSU student working at Nova-Tech Engineering as a Co-Op/Intern. Suchit is from Nepal, which recently suffered a devastating earthquake which left more than 4,000 people dead and roughly 100,000 homeless. He was recently featured in the West Central Tribune sharing his story and spreading awareness to help … Continued

Youth Science Retreat

This past weekend the MinnWest Technology Campus, in partnership with the United Way and Lakeland Broadcasting, hosted the fifth annual i3@MTC Youth Science Retreat. The i3@MTC Youth Science stands for “Inspire, Investigate, and Innovate at the MinnWest Technology Campus.” The retreat is geared towards kids from 3rd – 12th … Continued

Selfie sticks and babies

Here’s a little something fun amidst the stressful times of late: Innovation and embracing new technologies never slip out of the minds of our patriarch’s Ray and Ted. Check them(with their families) out in these photos learning how to take great selfies while using the culturally relevant and topical “selfie … Continued

April Fools and Easter

Unfortunately we didn’t make time to put out an April Fools spoof update this year. Sorry everyone, everything in this update is true. Among the midst of silly and annoying internet pranks on April 1st, I highly recommend at least checking out Google maps; where you can click … Continued

Midwest Poultry Convention

Last week many of our Ag Sector employees attended the Midwest Poultry Convention in St. Paul, MN, an annual event filled with valuable poultry industry education (and an opportunity for our hard-working employees to network with fellow poultry people and have just a little fun).  While we aren’t sure who … Continued

A Parable

A parable for you today: Once upon a time there was an HR guy, I’ll call him Honathan Juisinga to keep him anonymous. Upon joining his new organization, Honathan is blessed with a role that fits perfectly with his Strengths. He is passionate about working to improve … Continued

Grants & Goats!

Hello, We have an exciting update from the Chief Operating Officer of Syntiron, Lisa Herron-Olson: “Syntiron was awarded a research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an iron receptor vaccine to prevent urinary tract infections caused by E. coli in humans. Urinary tract … Continued

Telling a Story

Hi everyone, Our Organizational Development team recently set out to adorn the back wall of our training and orientation room with something that tells a story about our company (see image above). We started with a printed version of the drawing featured in our LSI history orientation video as … Continued

Nova-Tech Engineering at IPPE

Hello there, In the above image we have (from left) Jacob Rooney, Mike Daugherty, Jay Halliday, Aaron Madsen, Scott Johnson, Brent Peterson, Jim Sieben and Bin Jiang(holding the selfie stick!) at the IPPE. Nova-Tech has attended the IPPE (International Production & Processing Expo) for roughly 25 years. Rumors … Continued

Peculiar Happenings in February

Hi everyone, Our LSI & Affiliated Companies’ Annual Christmas Party finally arrived last weekend! For those of you not able to make it, the “Hello Dolly!” production was really well done (despite the controversially awkward silver spandex marching band costumes…). They even altered their script just for us, in one … Continued