Connecting KC: Internships help build people (and a workforce)

About the Connecting KC series: This ongoing project aims to assist efforts to make businesses, institutions and civic organizations — and opportunity — more diverse and inclusive. As a youngster, Lonnie Thompson regularly fashioned miniature buildings out of Legos and later spent his free time after school watching construction from the ground up – from driving by new developments to watching YouTube videos.  “Construction has always just been so cool and fun to me,” said Thompson,…