What an awesome way to end the week with Christmas in July for CCDI! Several months ago we were contacted by North St. Louis County native, Nicole L. who is a Regional Manger at Hilti, about how she could get involved with CCDI and she certainly went above and beyond the call! Today, Nicole and fellow Hilti Regional Manager, Morgan Young, stopped by North Technical High School with a truck load of tools for our CCDI students! Thank you SO much to Hilti Group for this extremely generous donation! Our students will get a lot of hands on experience in

Congratulations goes out to Brandin Rayford, 2021 CCDI graduate, who recently began his career at Kuesel Excavating Co Inc. CCDI awarded Brandin a tool scholarship last week to help him stock up on work clothes and other items to get started. Brandin has been active in our program since his sophomore year. He was selected as a junior intern at Villa Lighting Supply, Inc. last summer and has been one of North Tech’s standout graduates. Brandin is a true testament to what the CCDI program is all about and of course that would not be possible without the help of

Graduates of the CCDI program teamed up with Habitat for Humanity and volunteers from Concrete Strategies, Clayco, PayneCrest Electric, Geotechnology and St. Louis Job Corps to lay two foundations on Habitat homes in the Gate District. We were joined by CCDI grads Chris Conners (2016) and Keishawn Outlaw (2018) who are both carpenters with CSI and Rashad Johnson (2020) is a project manager intern with Clayco. We also would like to give a shout out to the four St. Louis Job Corps construction program instructors that came out to volunteer! CCDI is proud to help sponsor and promote the great

CCDI is extremely excited to announce our 2021 “Build Our Future” Scholarship recipients! This annual scholarship is awarded to top-qualifying seniors in North St. Louis county who exhibit a desire to study and pursue a career in the construction industry! Today, we had the opportunity to visit each of our newest scholars at their respective high school to celebrate their hardwork and dedication and present them each with a special award! Over the past 6 years, CCDI has awarded 30 academic scholarships to assist students in pursuing higher education. We are so proud to induct the class of 2021 Build

Meet Juan Brown! Through our partnership with St. Louis Job Corps, we were connected with Juan who graduated as president of his class from the program in 2016. Since graduating, Juan has been interested in furthering his skills in the electrical pathway. CCDI wanted to help make that happen and recently helped to get Juan hired as an apprentice electrician at Power Up with The UP Companies. Congrats, Juan! We had the opportunity to visit Juan on site at the Delmar Divine project to see how things were going. Mentorship is an important part of the program and we wanted

We are recognizing 2020 CCDI & BUD graduate, Nia Sykes, who was recently hired by Blind Ambition. Nia attended both Jennings and North Technical HS where she completed the carpentry program. She has been an active student in CCDI for the past 3 years, attending nearly ALL our Saturday academies as well as being selected for an internship with K&K Supply two summers ago. Nia is working as an apprentice carpenter installing blinds and says she couldn't be more happy to work for a company like Blind Ambition. This past week she was even given a company van to drive