We had a great meeting last night. The students learned about some of the basic concepts of sustainability as it relates to the design industry. After that we broke the students into 2 groups and let them to both take part in a visual listening exercise and perform site analysis for our building site. The […]
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We had a successful first official ACE session! We kicked it off by testing our skills at building spaghetti towers.
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I told Yao that ACE would not turn into volleyball season. I may or may not have intentionally missed every single volleyball game for the VOA work league because I’m tragically awful at volleyball. And here I go, missing (quite unintentionally) the first real ACE meeting of the season! Nevertheless – I got a great
This Monday, November 11th is the IIT Field trip. You can still register at : http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/vis Details: When: Nov. 11 9:45 AM- 3:00 PM Where: 10 W. 33rd st. Perlstien Hall This is a great opportunity to see a campus!
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Hey Team 7! Remember that our first ACE session will be tomorrow, Wednesday, at 5PM at the AS+GG offices. The offices are located at 115 S. LaSalle St. See everyone tomorrow!
It’s that time of the year again people! No, I’m not talking about National Cat Day, which just so happens to be today also, it’s time for ACE to begin again! For those of you who were lucky enough to attend, our kickoff meeting at Jones College Prep, we met the team, learned a little
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08/13/2013 ..we couldn’t do it without a lot of help.. 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
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08/12/2013 Congratulations to our Students! Congratulations to the 2013 Design Build Team for completing a beautiful project in Ping Tom Park! Students completed installation of (2) temporary park benches, (1) Chinese Chess game-table (a.k.a., Xiangqi), and (1) sign table with a map of the park! The project turned out beautifully and was already receiving a lot
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08/02/13 Safety First Two representatives came from Mortenson Construction to talk about safety on the construction sites and about jobs in the field of engineering, architecture, and construction. They supplied us with safety hats, glasses, and gloves. A group of us worked on staining the bench backings. Another group worked on pouring in the concrete
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7/31/2013 Further Developments Design Decisions Since the client meeting, we finalized a more precise budget and decided we have the resources to build two benches and a game table. We split into Design and Build teams for the table and the bench, the Design teams working on design and construction documents, while the Build teams
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