ACE Student Showcase 2023

 

Hurricane and flooding

The design challenge asked students to create plans for a humanitarian response camp after a hurricane in Boston. The camps needed to be buildable within one week of the disaster, and to provide sleeping, eating, medical, gathering, and other requirements. The camp designs used an existing park or public space as the setting.

Innovative solutions

Over 15 weeks, the students refined their understanding of architecture, engineering, and construction management. They created designs that were sensitive to the trauma experienced during the disaster, and with their mentors, they created visions for the needs of the survivors. The students then presented their designs at the Student Showcase on March 8, 2023 at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Scroll down to see photos from the event.

Also, you can see the final presentations created by each team here:

BSA

NU

PCA

RCC

SMMA

Virtual

WIT

Scholarships

ACE is proud to have awarded $210,000 in scholarships to the Class of 2023. We wish them the best on their college, university, and trade school studies.

“The ACE Mentor program helped me build my confidence and improve my communication and collaboration skills. As we worked together on group projects, my mentors encouraged me to be an active
participant, such as presenting my team’s questions to other teams and offering suggestions
for improvement.”

Scholarship recipient, 2023

 

Janine Byrne and Mike Harris accept the BSA Commonwealth Award. Photo: Paige McWhorter

The Boston Society for Architecture’s Commonwealth Award was created to recognize an outstanding influence on our built environment or our awareness of it. The Society bestowed the BSA Commonwealth Award upon ACE Mentor Program at its January 18th gala. Mike Harris, our President, and Janine Byrne, our Vice President, accepted the award for ACE. Read more here.

ACE interns and BPS educators listen to a speaker at Autodesk.

The Boston Opportunity Agenda (BOA) is a public/ private partnership that works to increase dramatically the pace and scale of change in education for all children in Boston, with a focus on students who experience the least access to successful pathways.The BOA recently highlighted ACE Mentor Program and its collaboration with Autodesk, Nitsch, Elkus Manfredi, and Gilbane to provide paid summer internship opportunities for our students. We are so grateful to our employers, and particularly Kellyanne Mahoney at Autodesk, for making these summer opportunities possible for our students, and for the recognition of the potential of this work.Read more about the collaboration here.

Speed rotation through the disciplines

On Thursday, October 13, ACE students were invited to Wentworth Institute of Technology for our kickoff event. Students were invited to rotate through activities in five disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, structural engineering, electrical engineering, and construction management scheduling. Did you miss the kickoff? It’s not too late to join! ACE allows students to register and join when they are able. Click here to learn about registering.

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Anthony Jimenez, Electrical Engineer mentor, explains a circuit activity to a student

Designer Jesse Eveler explains an architecture activity to students

 

Governor Charlie Baker and ACE alumna Yordy Tesfaye

$541,000

Raised at the event

78%

Students of color

$1,057,500

Scholarships awarded since 2007

48%

Girls

3 ACE Mentor Program 2022 scholarship recipients with their giant checks
Two scholarship awardees from the Class of 2022 receive their checks
Left to right, ACE Mentor Anthony Jimenez, Electrical Engineer at SMMA; Kaliab Tale, Class of 2022; ACE Mentor Janine Byrne, Interior Designer at PCA, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui; Lilia Burtonpatel, Class of 2022 and her family; ACE Mentor Casey Williams, Engineer and Project Manager at SGH.

Congratulations to the Class of 2022

This weekend, the ACE Mentors were out and about awarding scholarships to seniors in our Class of 2022 who are pursuing college, university, or trade school studies in ACE fields. We are so proud of our seniors, and we believe in your potential!

 

ACE Mentor Students

December 2021

 

ACE Mentor Students

December 2021

 

ACE Mentor Students

December 2021

 

A huge thank you to Suffolk Construction for welcoming our students for tours of the Northeastern University science and laboratory building site on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We started at the top of the building and worked our way down, seeing the stages of construction in real time. We learned a lot! Special shout out to ACE Mentor Mikayla Filippone, Assistant Project Manager at Suffolk, for arranging the tours.