Did you know that there would be no pizza without the skilled trades?! In fact, much of what is in the world around you is…
Entrepreneur Lessons with Katie Herbert. Katie Herbert says that she doesn’t have a job title. “I’m still kind of figuring out,” says the renovation expert,…
Engineers of Tomorrow CEO Rebecca White joins Build a Dream to Talk Girls in STEM Whether it’s in the classroom, volunteering, or at a co-op…
DYK: There are Free CNC Training Programs in Toronto? Women are under-represented in advanced manufacturing and the Work Based Learning Consortium (WBLC) has only seen…
Leadership Lessons from Linda Hasenfratz Linda Hasenfratz, CEO of Linamar Corporation since 2002, joined Nour Hachem Fawaz to talk about leadership and empowering young women…
Sergeant Wendy Drummond joins Nour Hachem-Fawaz in a live interview. She joined the Toronto Police Service over 25 years ago as a 911 dispatcher and…
Alexandra has been with EllisDon Corporation since January 2018, working in various roles including proposal, pre-construction, and design management. She is currently working on-site at…
Jenan Abderrahman joins Build A Dream to reveal her journey to young women who are still deciding. She is a Telemetry Engineering in Electrical, Controls…
Kitchener Fire Department Captain, Stacey Hemstock joined Build a Dream President & Founder Nour Hachem Fawaz to talk about how welcoming the fire department was…
Kim Quinn from the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers joins Nour in a live interview. Kim shares her career journey, her motivation, and her vision of…
Wen Teoh is the director of the entrepreneurship program at the EPICentre at the University of Windsor. She joined Nour in a Facebook Live interview…
When Build a Dream had to cancel in-person events due to the pandemic, Brandy Coulsey, Marketing & Vendor Relations Manager, Next Dimension Inc., immediately said,…
Ainslee Winter, Owner of Revival Through Hands, joined Build a Dream’s President & Founder, Nour Hachem Fawaz to talk about being an entrepreneur, self-care, and…
Machinist Rebecca Chenier wanted a new start and had a family to support. She had enjoyed some of her tech classes in high school and…
Caroline Schaal joined Nour Hachem Fawaz to chat about winding career paths and STEM learning from home.
Inspector Tammy Fryer, a 30-year veteran of the Windsor Police Service, joined Build a Dream President, Nour Hachem Fawaz to discuss what changes policing has…
Sabrina Gomez joined us to talk about how her inquisitive nature took her into Aerospace Engineering, what she did to prepare for her career, and…
Colin Toop, Master Electrician, Project Manager, and creator of Tools of the Trade Podcast, joins us to discuss construction in these new times, why he…
STEM.org-certified maker space teacher, Chuck Stoffle, joins us to talk about how we can keep young women in STEM. They address the topic of embracing…
We were pleased to have the very funny and brutally honest entrepreneur Natasha E. Feghali, Founder, Feghali Group Inc. join us for #MondayMotivation. Five years…
Our #FridayFeature is carepentry apprentice Delaney Krieger. Delaney revealed what it is like to work in a male-dominated field, how joining the Carpenters and Joiners…
Crystal Roy, Owner of Meadowbrook Renovations joins us for #ThursdayTalks. Crystal is an entrepreneur and a cerpenter, who started her first company at the age…
Nicole Anderson, Program Director of Women Entrepreneurship Strategy at @WindsorEssex Economic Development Corporation joins Nour Hachem Fawaz to talk about entrepreneurship for #MondayMotivation
Yvonne Lau, Founder of Retainify joins us to talk about her career path and running her tech company. Nour Hachem Fawaz and Yvonne discuss the…
Build A Dream has brought our Career Discovery Expo to London, ON. in Fall 2019. Here is a recap of the event along with some…
Students, Parents, and Educators share their stories and perspectives on encouraging young women in underrepresented careers, what young women bring to the classroom, and hear…
A diverse group of industry professionals sharing their insight on gender diversity in the workforce. They speak about the female experience starting from school, as…
Build a Dream’s first career discovery expo in Bruce Grey Counties was a big success! The large crowd of parents and their daughters got to…
Build a Dream’s sixth annual career discovery expo in Windsor was a big success! The large crowd of parents and their daughters got to learn…
Build a Dream’s second career discovery expo in Kitchener-Waterloo was a big success! The large crowd of parents and their daughters got to learn more…
When you think of a welder, who do you see? When you think of firefighter, who do you see? When you think of a scientist,…
We had a blast at our 2nd annual #DreamerDay Breakfast on October 11, 2019 celebrating #InternationalDayoftheGirl! Check out some of our favourite moments!
Sit down with Heike Delmore, photographer and personal branding image designer, as we get #Unscripted. Join us in talking about the campaign and Heike’s personal…
From a young age, we tell our daughters that they can be anything. Find out why #EveryMessageMatters in the household, in education, and in the…
Build a Dream’s first career discovery expo in Kitchener-Waterloo was a big success! The large crowd of parents and their daughters got to learn more…
#Balanceforbetter means working collectively to create change. This starts with families. Watch as we ask families to share their dreams and hopes for their daughters…
Recap of #DreamerDay October 11th 2018 Keynote Speaker – Jordana Strosberg of General Motors Build a Dream welcomes you to celebrate the first annual Dreamer…
A group of girls from the community decided they wanted to be part of the FIRST® Robotics program and are now the only all-female team…
Build A Dream March Break Skilled Trades Camp Young women in Windsor-Essex are spent the week building their dreams in a metal shop, a construction…
This International Women’s Day we will work #together to #pressforprogress. Over thirty community leaders came together to commit to a “gender parity mindset” via progressive…
Empowering young women to consider career pathways under-represented by women (Skilled Trades, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Law Enforcement and Entrepreneurship)
