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 […]

College Night The Week 4 meeting focused on discussing issues related to college- including planning and funding college careers, how to evaluate different college options, and what to do once you finish college. Some big takeaways: Make use of all available resources. Teachers, counselors, ACE mentors, etc. all have different experience relating to the college process.

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

Hey everyone, hope you had a great Thanksgiving break. Welcome back! Tomorrow will be our Clune Construction site visit. We are first meeting at Sargent Lundy, then heading to the site (400 S Jefferson, Corner of Van Buren and Jefferson). See you then.

Our last meeting was getting to know the disciplines. Our ACE students divided into three groups, where they rotated between the Architecture, Engineering and Construction professionals and participated in a series of activities to get to know what we all do and what our professions are about. The activities included a tour of the AS+GG

Team 6 met at the office of Thornton Tomasetti for an introduction to structural engineering. The engineers of TT provided an overview of basic concepts such as tension, compression, and bending forces. ACE students then had an opportunity to draw on the meeting’s lesson while competing in the spaghetti hat challenge. This week’s challenge required

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

Team 4 kicked-off week 2 with a fast and furious two phase design activity. After a presentation from Cannon on “What is an Architect?”, the students were split into two groups for Phase 1. Each group was tasked with designing a sculpture for a local highschool. They received a box of materials and instructions, but the catch

Team A tackling an issue with the Team B design – one wall was supposed to be made of a stack of books.