ACE Mentor Nashville Team 4 update

Posted by Dan Ryan on February 1, 2018
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Team 4 consists of students from schools in Davidson County, Tennessee

Team 4 is working on their project of a transit oriented development. They’ve evaluated the current mayor’s plan and selected a new site for development. They are currently firming up their program to really define what is included in their project. The most exciting part of this though is that this past Monday we took them all on a field trip to ride the Music City Star! We explored around the Riverfront station, then rode the train to Donelson, and explored a bit of that area so they could compare/contrast to help them determine what should be included in their project. Plus, it was just fun as none of the students had ever been on a train before.

Jill Romano of ESa-Team 4 mentor and ACE board member

 

ACE Mentor Nashville Team 5 update

Posted by Dan Ryan on January 31, 2018
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Team 5 consists of students from Metro Nashville Public Schools:

Team 5 is currently in the process of designing a transit hub as part of the Let’s Move Nashville initiative. Our last meeting focused on developing 2 separate design concepts for the project with the hopes of the ideas converging into 1 cohesive design project during our next meeting. Moving forward we will focus on translating the design into a 3d environment and integrating different building systems (HVAC, electrical, structural) and working through an abbreviated pricing exercise to understand the cost impact that a project of that type/scale might have. The culmination for the project will *hopefully* be a 3d model that is able to be experienced in VR using the Oculus Rift.

Terrance Perdue-Gresham Smith & Partners; Mentor for Team 5

ACE Mentor Nashville Team 3 Update

Posted by Dan Ryan on January 31, 2018
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Team 3 includes students from Williamson County Schools, including Centennial, Franklin and Page high schools.

The students are well underway in their end of year project following a semester full of rotating office visits. They have explored the roles of a design and construction team member and used exercises at each office visit to delve into the relationship between these teams. Most recently, the students gathered to celebrate a great start to the year and hit the bowling lanes for a little bonding time!

Halie Johnson, Johnson Johnson Crabtree-Mentor for Team 3

ACE Mentor Nashville Team 6 meeting

Posted by Dan Ryan on January 24, 2018
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Team 6 from Stratford Magnet School in Nashville recently took a field trip and also generated some great meeting notes from their work.

Here is just a sample of their thoughts:

Date: Thursday, January 11, 2018
Project: 18601 Aquaponics Garden
Subject: Brainstorm, goals, draft schedule
Present: Students: Ashley Hernandez, Bibiana Zermeno, Erin Burdick, Kerrick
Sornthong, Melanie Tapia, Michael McCall, Mohamed Ahmed, Robert Tapia, Sadie
Escalona, Samuel Armstead, Vianney Muniz
Mentors: Allison Sonnenberg, Ben Chandler, Kara Oravetz, Mathew Smith, Rachel
Gresham (5)

The following is a summary of our understanding of items discussed and decisions reached during the referenced meeting. These notes, and subsequent clarifications, form the basis for future decisions.
1) Design of the system
a. Use fish poop to fertilize plants
b. Want system to move
c. Layered structure
d. Floating garden, water must move
e. Layer plants based on sunlight
f. Plants and fish in certain relationship for fertilization
g. Tubes from fish tank to plants
h. Water fall feeds fish tank and plants
i. Glass plant containers
j. Square spiral with water
k. Powered by hydropower
l. How do contain fish
m. Scissor lifts to move water
n. What do we do when its cold?
i. Greenhouse
ii. Moving canopy
2) Plan outlining fish and plants to be grown
a. Bottom feeders and crustaceans
b. Ask Karl about plants and fish. What is
3) Schedule of design and construction expectations
Jan 25 – nail down design
Feb 8 – start drawings and finalize design, photograph
Feb 22 – begin on model, photograph, draw
March 1 – potential extra meeting to work
March 9 – work on model, photograph draw
March 15 – potential extra meeting to work
March 22 – finish model, photograph, draw
March 29 – potential extra meeting to work
April 12 – speaking skills, final information,
presentation
April 19 – Practice
April 26 – Banquet!
May 3 – Celebration!

, flowing from top arl chef’s menu?
design, know what materials to use draw, begin presentation finish model, finish  drawings, presentation, how do we transport model?

4) Deliverable Goals
a. Blueprints
b. Model
c. photographs

5) Management Approach
a. To be determined at January 25 Meeting

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ACE Mentor kicks off at Stratford

Posted by Dan Ryan on November 17, 2017
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The ACE team at Stratford STEM kicked off our year with some team building exercises. We worked together to “cross the Cumberland River”.

We also cracked the code to launch the UFO auto pilot back to earth by lining up in birthday order without using our voices. To embrace the challenges, lines of communication and problem solving strategies were developed between mentors and students. We will use these new found connections to develop an awesome project this year!