Despite windy conditions and brisk temperatures ACE Team 2 braved the Chicago night on November 18th to visit a construction site managed by Turner; luckily the building was totally enclosed and nearing completion! This site visit to Illinois Masonic’s new hospital building was especially exciting as some of our returning students, all seniors at various […]

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Last Wednesday marked the beginning of yet another exciting year for the ACE mentors and students. In the Jones College Prep auditorium, Executive Director Pat O’Connell gave an introduction to the program before awarding a couple scholarships to distinguished ACE alumni. We then headed up to our separate classrooms for our team break out sessions. After

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I would like to extend a thank you to each of our talented and hardworking ACE students who participated this summer; and of course to the many supporters of our summer program! ACE Chicago Board of Directors, Associate Board, and Supporting Professional Firms Chicago Public Schools, Careers and Technical Education Curie Metro High School the Archer Heights

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Unbelievably, the program has come to an end! It has been an unforgettable summer for the entire team, and the final build went great! The feedback to the community was great, and the final workday was met with much anticipation from the neighborhood children. Throughout the summer, the team has not only learned how to

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With the last week among us, we are all working hard. Once the lumber came in (Thanks Power Construction for your donation!), we immediately set forth on our journey to complete the Wilapa Tree Play Platform. We started by making the bottom structure, followed by setting up the structure of each of the faces. Teams

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With the dwindling amount of weeks left, students and instructors are really feeling the grind of a deadline. The construction documents are nearing finish, after much deliberation and discussion on how the Wilapa tree platform structure will get built. A visit from Randy B. from HOK also provided much help. Thanks Randy!     Students

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ACE Summer Fundraiser!! August 19, 6-8pm at Howells & Hood, 435 N. Michigan Ave Spend a casual summer evening with fellow friends of ACE, at our 6th annual summer fundraiser!  Join us as an individual or as a corporate sponsor, and support one of the best Building Industry Youth programs in the Country!  Please see the attached Summer Event Invitation or Corporate

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Now three weeks into the Park Design, we have no time for stopping, it is full speed ahead. The ACE Design Build Group is making progress! This week was spent mostly pushing the design ideas forward and start finalizing them. Construction time is almost upon us!   Site Model Group The site model group spent

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The students are learning the site like the back of their hands. After group discussion about the current site and features we all agree on, we broke into three teams, the Site Model team, Site Plan team, and Design Features team.    SITE MODEL TEAM (Jesus, Patty, Mike, AshleyAnn) The context of the site is

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