STEM careers
We’ll look back on 2015 as the dawn of yet another era of big plans and talk, with a heavy dose of mediocrity to satisfy our deeply ingrained Second City inferiority complex.
Source: Chicago architecture year in review – Consumer News – Crain’s Chicago Business
Members of ACE Team 3 toured the new Franklin, TN campus of Columbia State Community College on Tuesday December 1, 2015.
Thanks to the help of members of the Hoar Construction staff, the team was able to view and learn about the new facility. They visited a new chemistry lab, a soundproof music room and a video filming studio.
Thanks to the volunteers for Team 3 for providing this tour for our students from Williamson County Schools.
Firms who participate with Team 3 include the following:
- Envision Advantage
- Johnson Johnson Crabtree Architecture
- Littlejohn/S&ME
- Stanley D. Lindsey
- Turner
- HCA
Source: Ow.ly – image uploaded by @ACEMentor
I walked through the @Greenbuild conference on my way to another conference last week while in Washington, DC.
Looked like a great venue full of wonderful opportunities!
Thanks to @usgbc for putting this together.
HOUSTON, TX – 11/12/2015 (PRESS RELEASE JET) — Construction, Architecture, and Engineering professionals from the greater Houston area are getting ready to Build It Forward. The ACE Mentor Houston’s annual scholarship fundraiser is scheduled to be held November st, at AM at the Marek Bros. office located at 2115 Judiway, Houston, TX. Over twenty teams of students, lead this year by the “Leadership AGC Class of 2016”, mentors and program alumni are scheduled to get some hands-on learning and an opportunity to give back to the community, while they build storage benches. Teams will build the benches, which will then be delivered to other non-profits throughout Houston.
University City, West Philadelphia, Community Newspaper
Source: ACE Mentor Program offers high school students hands-on experience in design trades
A guide to the best events and tours of the Chicago Architecture Biennial where America’s first starchitects paved the way for modern skyscrapers.
Source: Chicago’s Architecture Biennial: The Best of a Building Buff’s Dream Event – WSJ
The ACE (Architecture, Construction, Engineering) Mentor Program of America, America’s top workforce development organization encouraging youth
Under the direction of ACE Mentor of Nashville President, Greg Stein of HCA, four leaders from the Nashville chapter conducted a tour of key donors to the STEM related program that focuses on the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industries. Without the support of those pictured and several others who were not available, the ACE Mentor program would not be as successful as we have been in the Middle Tennessee market.
Here are the donors we visited and a list of those we will be visiting soon:
- Batten & Shaw
- Brasfield & Gorrie
- WG Yates & Sons
- Structural Design Group
- Messer
- ESA
- Gresham Smith
- BWSC
- Enterprise Electric
- Harvest
- JE Dunn
- Turner
- TM Partners
- Layton
- Bell & Associates
- Skanska
- NoliWhite Group
- Ryan Search & Consulting
Ryan Search & Consulting
Batten & Shaw
Bell & Associates
Brasfield & Gorrie
BWSC
ESA
WG Yates
Gresham Smith
JE Dunn
Layton
Greg Stein, Tara Myers, Alan Hayes & Jack Tipton enjoy lunch (photo by Dan Ryan)
Messer
Skanska
Structural Design Group
Turner
ACE Mentor Nashville 