ACE Mentor Program of Washington

Oh wow! Seattle Presentation Night, not quite two weeks ago, was amazing! More than 650 people attended in three auditoriums at Kane Hall at ! Thank you to UW Construction Management for sponsoring our use of the rooms, and thank you and for cookies! Congrats to all the students on finishing out this great year. JOIN US TOMORROW NIGHT for ACE's VIRTUAL PRESENTATION NIGHT, our last presentation event of the year! (See link in bio! All are welcome!)

What a night! Congrats to all the ACE Eastside students! Four teams presented their community market designs in meeting rooms at Microsoft last night, impressing everyone in the audience with their thoughtful architecture, innovative engineering, and organized construction plans. Way to go! It was an amazing year - let's do it again in the fall! Thank you for the meeting space and for the cookies!

It's hard to believe the ACE year is coming to a close! Check out the Wednesday Seattle Team 2 hard at work on their site anaylsis efforts earlier this year. Huge site maps, trace paper, colored pencils, research tools, and group discussions really helped the team dig into the site in preparation for their designs. We can't wait to see what you came up with this year! See you Monday in Tacoma, Tuesday in Redmond, and Wednesday in Seattle!

ACE had a really cool experience last Friday when we got to attend a "topping out" celebration for the new Phase 1 expansion at Inglemoor High School in the Northshore School District. Several ACE mentors on the IHS project team went above and beyond to get the ACE Inglemoor students involved in their school's project. They learned all about the design, created the official topping out t-shirt, and got to attend the event and sign the beam! Experiences like this truly bring ACE to life for students, who now can see how the design industry works at their very own high school! Special thanks to Steve, architect at , who made it all happen!