Paul Zelisko, Director of the Brock-Niagara Validation, Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute (VPMI), provides a tour of the newly constructed facility to (from left) Vance Badawey, Member of Parliament for Niagara Centre; Lesley Rigg, President and Vice-Chancellor of Brock University; the Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister responsible for the Federal Development Agency of Southern Ontario; and Chris Bittle, Member of Parliament for St. Catharines, on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The VPMI received $5 million in funding from the Federal Development Agency of Southern Ontario in 2019 to support the institute’s construction.