Welcome to the ACE Team 3 page! ACE Team 3 Mentors are very excited to start a fresh new term with students coming from various high schools throughout the city. Orientation was a success at the School of the Art Institute. Students learned about scholarships and internships that will be awarded at the end of […]
Some ACE students from the South Shore neighborhoods of Chicago were invited to tour the new High School on 76th and S. Jeffry. Highlights of the tour included an appearance by the construction contractor and architects that are responsible for the project! We will invite South Shore students for a return visit on Tuesday Nov. 02!
South Shore High School Construction Visit #1 Read More »
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Team 1 – Orientation – Spaghetti Hat Tower Read More »
Welcome to A.C.E. 2010-2011. We look forward to another fantastic year serving Chicago’s best and brightest students while introducing the professional fields of Architecture, Construction, and Engineering! The Chicago chapter of the national A.C.E. program is made up of 7 teams, each team enrolling up to 30 students and led by a group of young
Welcome to the 2010-2011 Chicago A.C.E. Mentor Program! Read More »
[slideshow] Thank you! Thank you to all of the talented and hardworking ACE students who participated this summer; and thank you to the many supporters of our inaugural summer program! ACE Chicago Board of Directors, Associate Board, and Supporting Professional Firms Chicago Public Schools Curie Metro High School Bovis Lend Lease Wight Construction West Humboldt Park
Week Nine, August 2010 – Completed Tool Shed! Read More »
[slideshow] Director Summary: These handsome photos were taken earlier in the week.. before final completion. Eleven Chicago Public School students, all entering their senior year, were responsible for the design and construcion of this rain harvesting garden tool shed! The shed was built for the Ujima Community Garden on Chicago’s west side, but installed on
Week Eight, Aug. 13, 2010 – Site Installation! Read More »
Student Summary: This week for week 7 we are framing and building the wall panels for the tool shed. At the beginning of the week, one group of the team started cutting the reclaimed wood and another group started to stain the reclaimed wood, while other groups started the framing of the wall panels for
Week Seven, Aug, 06, 2010 – Prefabrication at Curie HS Read More »
Student Summary: Week six was a tough week for us. We had a guest speaker come in, Carmen from Gibson Electric Company, he talked about how imporant it is to install electricity the correct way throughout a buildings, highrises, and homes. In his presention he had many complex drawing showing the power boxes, the electric room, how
Week Six, July 30, 2010 – Building Systems Read More »
Student Summary: It’s already week 5 and we have accomplished very much in that short period of time. At the beginning of week 5, we had Todd Zima and Aash Desai visit and lecture us. Aash helped us with the budget and Todd discussed the new de Young museum. Designing this building involved using Computer Aided Manufacturing to
Week Five, July 23, 2010 Quantities, Budget, Client Read More »
Student Summary: On week four we started off with two lectures. Matt .B and Matt.D showed up at Curie on monday to talk about materials, and structures. From there the design team started finalizing the concept plans for the shed. The build team putting the final walls for the physical model for the 1/4″ scale model. And started
Week Four, July 16, 2010 Structures & CDs Read More »