Hey everyone, hope you had a great Thanksgiving break. Welcome back! Tomorrow will be our Clune Construction site visit. We are first meeting at Sargent Lundy, then heading to the site (400 S Jefferson, Corner of Van Buren and Jefferson). See you then.

I have the information packet that was handed out for orientation posted on this blog for all those who wanted to be there but could not. Information-Booklet-2012-2013 Here you will find information about each firm/company for team 1 as well as office locations and emails for each mentor. Also during orientation last week, we randomly paired

It’s finally here!! Our first meeting for Team 1 ACE program will officially kick off Thursday, November 1st. We will be meeting at the offices of Sargent & Lundy at 5pm: 55 East Monroe St. Floor 35 Chicago, IL 60603. Click here for a CTA Map: Meeting Map Any problems or questions for Sargent & Lundy’s office, please

Attention Students:  Please join ACE on our annual campus visit to the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, coming up Saturday March 10.  The trip is free to all ACE students and includes travel by coach bus, breakfast, lunch and a fantastic and informative tour for all students planning to attend college. We will be hosted upon

At our meeting last week Team One went VERTICAL!!  Our students and mentors got a first-hand look at Roosevelt University’s New Vertical Campus building.  The building was designed by Team One mentor group VOA Associates. [slideshow] VOA worked with Roosevelt University to develop this distinctive 35-story tower to house academic, student life and administrative spaces

ACE Students, An optional field trip to IIT’s campus has been arranged for next Friday, November 18, from noon to 4pm.  Students will meet with ACE mentors and IIT faculty on campus; we will tour architecture studios, engineering classrooms, student dorms and other campus buildings.  To sign up for the trip, or for more information,

College Night!! Mentors, wearing their best college sweaters, talked with students about the college application process  and shared their own personal college/career stories.  Team One also visited The Chicago Model on display at the Chicago Architectural Foundation: [slideshow] P.S. Team One don’t forget that this week we will be going on a construction site visit

Students great job on the first week of the ACE Program! Inspired by the Halloween season and the architectural tradition of the Beaux Arts Ball students where given the task of designing and constructing architecturally-inspired, creatively constructed, elegantly engineered hat for a mentor.  The catch, students were limited to using only spaghetti and tape to

Team One, It was a pleasure meeting all of you last Wednesday at the student orientation. We’re pleased that all of you have decided to participate in ACE and we’re excited to get started! Our first team meeting will be taking place this Thursday the 27th, from 4:30-6:30 at the offices of VOA which is

Students of ACE Mentor Program Team One have been awarded an Honorable Mention/Second Runner-Up in the 2011 CIRT/ACE National Design Competition.  The team’s design project focused on the adaptive reuse of the Singer Pavilion, on the former Michael Reese Hospital Campus, into a school for the performing arts.  This is a great achievement for the