This week we brainstormed our building programming and started conceptualizing our program layout. Team 7 will be looking at a structural reuse of the Morton Salt site, which is a former industrial site on the near northwest side of the city that’s roughly bordered by Elston Ave to the west, the Chicago River and Goose […]
We’ve had an exciting two weeks! We are finally determining the details of our project. Week 8 started off with a structural plan scavenger hunt. In small groups, students searched through a couple full-size prints of structural engineering sheets from a building project. They had a list of things to find, and they were able
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To catch you up on weeks 5 and 6: Week 5 was college night, and the mentors shared their experiences with college, what types of degrees are best for the different professions, and their personal life paths via collages. Week 6 was a relaxed week since a lot of the students had exams. We watched an
This week is one of everyone’s favorite weeks – the construction site visit! Team 7 headed up to the Gold Coast neighborhood to check out a Chicago landmark undergoing a major change, the Viceroy Hotel. The mentors and students first met at the Lou Malnati’s next to the site to enjoy some deep dish and
For Week 3, we focused in on each discipline individually. After dinner, each of the three mentor companies presented on some of their recent projects. First up was Jacobs, the engineering mentor firm. They shared a presentation that detailed what the Jacobs Chicago office does and had photos of recent projects, including examples of streetscapes,
Week 2 kicked off the series of weeks where the mentors share more details of their various career paths, and the students learn more and more about what the mentors do on their day-to-day jobs. We did two activities following dinner. The first activity was a “murder mystery” game. Three mentors, one each from the
Our first week, we met at the offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, the usual meeting spot for Team 7. We played some Blockus over dinner and then got into some introduction activities. First, we did an icebreaker to relax and start to get to know one another. Everyone grabbed a handful of M&M’s,
For the past few weeks, we have continued to work on our group project – a sports museum on Northerly Island. We had to skip a week due to severe weather, but we picked up right where we left off the next week. The two architecture groups have developed floor plans for the entire building
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This week we started with a few “brain teasers” to get everyone thinking about multiple ways to solve one problem. Good discussion came out of that, including considering different perspectives of a problem and taking into account all user needs. After recapping our week 9 activities, we then gave abbreviated presentations that covered what each
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Week 8 was dedicated mostly to starting the online ACE scholarship application. This is the application for all ACE students to apply for college scholarships, summer internships, and the design-build summer program. This is extremely important for all students to do – the likelihood of getting at least one of the three is very high!
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