Week 5 Recap Week six was our introduction to engineering! To introduce everyone to the coordination that is required among different disciplines, we did a coordination activity where we had to coordinate the location of steel beams, ducts, electrical wires, and various plumbing lines.  There was no right or wrong arrangement; however, some arrangements were a little […]

Week 5 Recap  For those of you that didn’t attend you missed out on burritos! And we have a winner!  There were so many good ideas for our site that it made it extremely difficult to come up with the main program, but after some internal debate, and multiple rounds of voting we decided that a

No meeting next week!   Week 3 Recap Who doesn’t like spending a nice quiet night walking around a cold parking lot in downtown Chicago?  Brrrr… anyways I hope everyone warmed up after our site visit on Tuesday night.  It was deffinitely a little chilly, but I think everyone that attended got a good feel for the sight and

Site Visit We will be meeting Tuesday, November 13th at Goettsch Partners. Shortly after, we will head to Team 2’s ACE site for the year! (on the corner of Illinois and Rush) I hope you all enjoyed last class where we introduced the site, and began brainstorming for a program. Here’s a list of some of

Welcome Team 2! It was great to meet everyone last week and based on the map below we have a diverse group of students and mentors from all over Chicago.  Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 6th at 5PM at Goettsch Partners (same place as last week). Remember to bring your two permission

Its breaks my little heart to think of the ACE project being done.  (Well that statement didn’t make me sound like I’m from the South did it??) I’m so happy with the people that made it out to the final project presentation for the year.  You all put in a lot of work here in

It’s getting down to the wire team.  While we try not to overload you all with stuff to work on outside of the weekly ACE meeting, it’s pretty crucial to work on putting together your presentation information in whatever free time you may have.  Coordinate with your team members so we can have a cohesive

This week’s blog post isn’t going to recap anything…there isn’t much to recap,  there is however A LOT more to do to get ready for the final presentation in a few weeks.  Instead, I hope you guys can use this post as a means to discuss what your group needs for next week.  Just comment

I’M GETTING SO EXCITED!  (So excited in fact, that I totally forgot to take pictures last meeting, sry.)  Seriously guys, this building is starting to come together, and it’s moving fast.  I hope you all understand that we have 4 more meetings, a total of 8 hours to put this project together…that’s NOT a lot

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