Make 2023 Your Year!

Happy 2023! This year, we're dedicated to becoming the best versions of ourselves possible. Through lots of learning and unlearning, we're determined to make 2023 our year!

Successful Women Share their Best Career Advice

Choosing a career path and making decisions can be difficult, but with proper guidance and mentoring it can alleviate some of the pressure on...

Response to Article that Highlights Women as the Skills Gap Shortage

In a recent Globe and Mail article, “Women are the answer to Canada’s skilled-trades shortage, but many roadblocks still exist” Julie Gordon (July, 2021) talks about how Canada is...

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Journey of a Pizza – Skilled Trades Teaching Resource

We love teaching at Build a Dream and helping to provide teachers with free resources to encourage their students to learn more about the...

Delaney Krieger speaks at a roundtable about skilled trades.

Carpenters Apprentice Delaney loves her job, here’s why

“You never know what you are going to get.” Delaney Krieger is a 2nd Year Carpenters Apprentice and she loves her job because every...

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Our President’s response to the tragic Kamloops discovery

⚠️Sensitivity Warning⚠️ A message from Build a Dream’s President & Founder, Nour Hachem-Fawaz: It’s not enough to be saddened and “shocked”. While I empathize...

Powerline Tech reps from St. Clair College demonstrate some of their powerline training at a Build a Dream career discovery expo in Windsor, Ontario.

Build a Dream applauds Ontario’s commitment to experiential learning

In a release sent to media today, Build a Dream expressed how pleased the organization is with last week’s 2021 Budget announcement from the Government of...

DREAM MAKER SPOTLIGHT: Maddy Paulson

Q&A with Maddy Level 2 Welding Apprentice, Maddy Paulson was recently apart of our #DreamBig Career Discovery Expo with Kawartha Pine Ridge District School...

Build a Dream supports Black Lives Matter

Over the past two weeks, the Build a Dream team has been doing plenty of listening, learning, and reflecting about the current state of...

How does going digital change our expo?

If you have been to a Build a Dream career discovery expo in the past, you know that it’s an inspiring and energetic event...

#DreamHomeEdition Panelists Announced!

We’ve gone digital with a career discovery expo that you can attend from home! As with our live events, one of the highlights of...

Is a Visual Effects Artist career a good choice for a young woman?

Since the birth of the visual entertainment industry (dating back to theatre) women have had an irreplaceable part to perform. Many iconic films around...

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