2011 Scholarship Winners
Back row: John Neyer (Scholarship Committee Chair), Kelly Huston, Abigail Crews, Dave Lapham (Cincinnati Bengals) Front row: Aaron Heironmius, Michael Reed, Katherin Miller, Don Sieller, William Rabe, Pat Popp (ACI Director of Education & Training)

 

ACI HOWARD KNAUF
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION

ACI'S Howard Knauf Scholarship Foundation is funded by contributions from ACI member companies, partnering organizations, and individual donations. ACI offers multiple scholarships to students pursuing a degree in a construction related program, such as construction management, civil engineering, architectural engineering technology or related programs.  Scholarships can range from $1,000 to $5,000 per year.
Please click on the ‘Scholarship Application’ button below to view the full list of Eligibility, Requirements and Awards.  For further information please contact Pat Popp at ppopp@aci-construction.org.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN……..
ACI’s Scholarship Program was established by a simple act of generosity and a desire to give back to the construction community.  In 2000, one of ACI’s instructors (who still wishes to remain anonymous after all this time) refused to accept payment for instructing an Educational Class and instead insisted that ACI give it to a student who wanted to go into the construction industry and needed financial assistance.  ACI’s Board Members, discussing how to best use this money, voted to honor ACI’s longest leading Executive Director of ACI, Howard Knauf, and so ACI’s Scholarship Program was born.  To date ACI has awarded almost $75,100 to deserving students and with the help of our members plans to increase the program to higher awards every year.

HOW IT CONTINUES……
In 2009, a long standing member company, cHc Fabricating Corporation, desired to honor the founder of their firm.  Harry Hoerr founded cHc Fabricating Corporation in 1961 with the intent to provide miscellaneous metals to the industry.  cHc Fabricating Corporation felt it only fitting to honor their founder by creating the Harry Hoerr-cHc Fabricating Corp. Scholarship under the ACI scholarship umbrella.  In 2009 at ACI’s Annual Meeting a commitment was made to provide a $5,000 scholarship each of the next five years in Harry Hoerr's honor. 

THE CHALLENGE….
If you or your organization would like to accept cHc Fabricating Corporation’s challenge to provide a similar scholarship gift and donate to the ACI Scholarship Program, please contact Pat Popp at (513) 221-8020 or ppopp@aci-construction.org.

PAST ACI SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS….

2011	$5000	Abigail Crews ACI Harry Hoerr-cHc Fabricating Corp. Scholarship
	$2,500 ea.	Kelly Huston, Katherine Miller, Don Sieller
	$1,000 ea.	Aaron Heironimus, William Rabe, Michael Reed ACI/ASPE Scholarships
2010	$5000	Michael Reed Harry Hoerr-cHc Fabricating Corp. Scholarship
	$2,500 ea.	Christopher Bender, Martin Davis III, John Lupidi
	$1,000 ea.	Stephanie Bryant, Aaron Heironimus, Robert Lupidi
2009	$5000	Susan Caldwell Harry Hoerr-cHc Fabricating Corp. Scholarship
	$2,500 ea.	Michael Freshwater, Michael Reed, Wes Doering
	$1,000 ea.	Kyle Kalkhoff, John Lupidi
2008	$1,200 ea.	Brian Crowley, Autumn Franz, Alex Gerschultz, John Lupidi, Rob Lupidi
2007	$1,000 ea.	Michelle Podsiadlo, Austin Allison, Ross Beasley
2006	$1,000 ea.	Luke Bach, Kate Hardig, Bryan Beischel, Craig Litmer
2005	$1,000 ea.	David Koob, Julie Seiter, Kate Hardig, Austin Allison
2004	$1,000 ea.	David Koob, Andrew Schultz
2003	$1,000 ea.	Joseph DeFiore, Rob Emmerich, Jason Fisher, Rachel Jarvis
2002	$1,000 ea.	Alexis Guilkey, Jenny Joliet, David Roberts, Kevin Richards
2001	$1,000 ea.	Robert Lass, James Lupidi, Daniel Palmer
2000	$1,000 ea.	Matthew Olliges, Stephen Swisher