Last night we had a blast discussing college opportunities and career paths! The students got an opportunity to hear how the mentors came to be at the firms/ careers they are at. As the students learned… no two paths were identical! We hope this night was inspiring to fill out your scholarship applications. ACE […]
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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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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!
Last week, we got back together in our work groups and kept working on the different aspects of the project. The presentation layout was defined and we all realized how much work we have left to do! Below, some images of the different teams working… Exterior Walls working on our 3D Model.. …our Structural team
On weeks 11 and 12, Team 7 started to develop the project (short-stack tower) by starting to think about the floor layouts, structures and facade design. Students were given papers shaped proportionally to the kind of program required in the building, and it was their job to cut it / place them as they thought would best
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On week 13 was the ACE luncheon, an event organized to help raise funds for ACE student scholarships and present to various contributors and teams what ACE is about and what we have achieved so far in ACE history and the year. Some ACE students were lucky to attend the event and sit with different
This week we dove further into our project and spent some time illustrating what inspires us. This gave everyone the opportunity to be creative and think about the concepts they want incorporated into the project. We then pinned up our collages and explained to the group our different ideas:
Week 9 was a very eventful week: from an elevator mishap to a site visit and concept collages, we had a few adventures but most importantly started thinking about the project in its context and how we envision it. We had a site visit to our project location in the South Loop, and were able
On week 8 we started with the very popular blokkus to get our heads back into the disciplines after the holidays. Then, we proceded to draw stacking diagrams of our new project: a short stack building. This exercise helped us understand how the difgferent programs relate to each other and where they could be on
