You guys should seriously just quit ACE now and just go design hats.  For real.  Without much of an introduction for this week (my blabbing will just distract from the coif-keepers), I present the work of the week 2 gathering, with a special shout-out to the winners of design competition: Best Topper Design: Rainbow Lion […]

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Welcome students and mentors! A recap on what has taken place in ACE these past few weeks. INTRODUCTION: We kicked off our first meeting by pairing students and mentors. Pairs shared stories and discussed how they became involved in ACE. It is great to know everyone is interested in making this a fun and educational

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We had a great meeting last night.  The students learned about some of the basic concepts of sustainability as it relates to the design industry. After that we broke the students into 2 groups and let them to both take part in a visual listening exercise and perform site analysis for our building site.  The

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I told Yao that ACE would not turn into volleyball season.  I may or may not have intentionally missed every single volleyball game for the VOA work league because I’m tragically awful at volleyball.  And here I go, missing (quite unintentionally) the first real ACE meeting of the season!  Nevertheless – I got a great

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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!

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It’s that time of the year again people!  No, I’m not talking about National Cat Day, which just so happens to be today also, it’s time for ACE to begin again!  For those of you who were lucky enough to attend, our kickoff meeting at Jones College Prep, we met the team, learned a little

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08/13/2013 ..we couldn’t do it without a lot of help.. I would like to extend a thank you to each of our talented and hardworking ACE students who participated this summer; and of course to the many supporters of our summer program! ACE Chicago Board of Directors, Associate Board, and Supporting Professional Firms Chicago Public Schools

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08/12/2013 Congratulations to our Students! Congratulations to the 2013 Design Build Team for completing a beautiful project in Ping Tom Park!  Students completed installation of (2) temporary park benches, (1) Chinese Chess game-table (a.k.a., Xiangqi), and (1) sign table with a map of the park!  The project turned out beautifully and was already receiving a lot

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