ACE Mentor Program

Portland

Contacts

Michelle Anderson
Program Coordinator
c/o Nishkian Dean
425 SW Stark Street
Portland, OR 97204
(p) 503.445.8693
info@acementororegon.org

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Save the Date
Inspire the Next Generation of Engineers Fundraiser
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
Bridgeport Brew Pub in Portland
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Calendar

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Forms

Parent Consent Form

Construction Site Tour Worksheet

Field Trip Permission Form

Program Evaluation Form

Mentors and Sponsors
Thanks to our many mentors and sponsors who have helped us this past year in making our affiliate such a success. View our list of mentors and sponsors.

Board of Directors
Our board is comprised of local industry leaders who make a significant contribution to our chapter. We are grateful for their continuing support. View our board members.

In the News
ACE: Engaging Future Building Industry Professionals - Spring/Summer 2007 Building Futures magazine
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About Us

In 2006, a group of local industry professionals founded ACE’s Portland chapter. Their goal was to introduce high school students to the industry’s wide range of vital and rewarding career opportunities. Today, 12 professional firms provide mentors for students from 15 schools within the Portland Public School District.

Students, participating in our program, must have at least a 2.5 grade point average, good attendance, teacher recommendations and two full years of math. They must also complete an interview.

During the course of the program, students engage in 12-15 mentoring sessions to develop one cooperative project, a task that gives them a taste of the teamwork required to create a built environment. The project culminates in presentations to families and friends.

In addition, students are eligible for ACE scholarships, which they can apply toward higher education in a building-related field.

Our Team Project

Stadium Area Restaurant
Fifty-eight juniors and seniors from 15 high schools worked with 29 mentors to create a plan for “developing” this waterfront area.

Students were given a parcel of land between the Rose Quarter stadium and the Willamette River, and asked to create a restaurant for the site. The teams chose widely varying themes and décor, shopped for fixtures, and were forced to do some “value engineering” with the construction management mentors. Participants got, as one student put it, “first-hand hands-on” experience of what architects, engineers, and contractors do to transform designs on paper into buildings on sites.

We also awarded nine scholarships totaling $28,000 for our students.

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ACE Portland 2007-2008

Our Teams

<p>Jaken Corp., Presenting.</p>
<p>Demogen Tech</p>
<p>Katarina Ivezic of Jaken Corp.</p>
<p>Cassidy Swider and Sam Domingo of Demogen Tech.</p>
<p>Amin Tuffa, Eric Randall and Maxwell Malinow of Kasu Development.</p>
<p>Amber Howard and Ollin Timm of Willamette Springs.</p>

Site Tours

<p>Students view construction adjacent to their final project site at Portland’s South Waterfront.</p>
<p>Students surveyed their final project site prior to a work session in a site construction office.</p>
<p>At the East Side Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project tour, students learn about project scheduling.</p>
<p>The East Side CSO tour finishes up with a look at the “muck conveyor”, which will transport tunnel boring sludge (after processing and recycling) to the barges that will take it to its dump site at the Ross Island lagoon.

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