If you haven't seen it by now, make sure to check PDCA social media including Facebook and LinkedIn; there you will find a remarkable, professional arial photo of all attendees gathered for a group photo during the first day in the training field on the grounds of our gracious hosts at Patriot Construction & Industrial, LLC in Duson, LA. Our amateur photography crew snapped a few different angles of the same shot to give the proverbial 'behind the scenes' coordination of this short, pre-brisket lunch episode.

Launching the drone...	Gathering the participants...
Still and drone photographers getting into place...	Scanning the grounds for any more stragglers...
Just about ready...	Now hold that pose...
Keep holding...	Two more seconds!
And they're out...	...a wonderful brisket lunch awaits!

Readers, we will have plenty more candid photos from the first Contractors Foundation Institute: The Driven Pile Academy event which took place April 4-7, 2022 and attracted pile driving professionals from every corner of the United States, including Hawaii. It even brought practitioners from Canada and Mexico. Be sure to check back to this blog for various other scenes from the event and see who was spotted during the course of the week.

PDCA thanks the many event organizers who spent months developing this unique and innovative program, the equipment professionals who provided pile driving machinery to the Louisiana location and the dozens of PDCA members and soon-to-be members (hopefully! Join today!) who attended the event as students.