With the ACE Summer Design Build Team moving through the schematic design phase, we have been working hard to develop multiple solutions for the Santa Lucia space on the North side. Teams have been broken up into teams, representing the art, garden, and classroom spaces. Through various critiques, each group has created fantastic drawings explaining […]
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On June 26, the design-build charrette began at Santa Lucia School located in Bridgeport. The students split up into teams to design the outdoor class. Every students had different creative ideas for the design. The students and staff of Santa Lucia enjoyed everyones creative thoughts for their outdoor classroom. We are excited for the next
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The annual ACE Alumni Scholarship and the Eli W. Cohen Scholarship will be awarded to two students who have exhibited outstanding academic performance, compelling personal character and an ongoing commitment to ACE’s mission to inform and excite high school students about career opportunities in the ACE fields. Both awards are offered to encourage excellence at
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Congratulations to Chicago ACE Mentor Program’s Team 1 on winning the 2015 CIRT/ ACE National Competition with their “Park City” Project. Team 1’s win marks Chicago’s first ACE National Competition win and cash prize for the Chicago ACE Mentor Program. Team 1 was one of only of three teams selected to compete in the finals in
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Attention ACE students and alum! There will be a charette on Saturday, April 25, 2015 from 9 am-1 pm at Curie Metro High School to plan their new courtyard! The Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), in partnership with the ACE Mentor Program and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is in the early
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ACE is seeking two students who have an interest in design, construction, and community development to assist with this year’s summer program. The collegiate assistants will fully participate in the summer Workshop as both a team member and teaching assistant. It is expected that the selected candidate will help motivate and lead the students through
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Team 4 had our final meeting last night to prepare for this year’s presentation. The students and mentors gathered to review all of the work we completed this year. It really is awesome to see how far our project has come over the past several months – from an empty site without programming or requirements to
There aren’t too many updates from this week, but progress definitely continued! The architecture group began to look at the final presentation. The outline is in the works, and the group now has a better grasp as to what deliverables will be needed and what topics will need to be discussed during the presentations on
Team 4 has been busy at work finalizing their project. Now that massing is complete, the students continued to work in teams to refine the component details. The mentors from Thornton Tomasetti explained the different types of structures to the students and worked with the team to determine the material and lateral system best suited
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Team 3 is in the final stretch this week! We are finishing up the design and beginning to put the presentation together.
