Sacramento
About Us
Founded in 2007 with significant support from the Construction Industry Education Fund (CIEF), ACE Mentor Sacramento introduces interested high school students to the building industry’s wide range of exciting career opportunities. The program is open to any student who would like to learn more about a future in architecture, engineering, construction or the building trades.
Our “pilot program” consisted of 11 sessions in which 24 students from Washington High School worked on a range of architectural, engineering and construction activities. The sessions were led by 11 mentors, eight of whom were members of our board of directors. This mentoring gave the board an opportunity to learn about the program and the mentors’ role in it. During the coming year, they will maintain the program’s continuity by enlisting new mentors and acting as “mentors to mentors".
For the 2007-2008 school year, we plan to expand the number of sessions to 15, add two to four more high schools and increase the number of mentors per team. We’ll also expose students to careers in the building trades and to opportunities in supplier industries.
Our Projects
In 2007, four student teams from Washington High School collaborated on a variety of projects, including snack bars, a skateboard park and an entertainment amphitheatre.
To expose students to the full range of industry career opportunities, the projects included field trips to the Sacramento Power Facility and the construction jobsite for Washington High School’s new building. In addition, the group visited engineering, architectural and construction offices, as well as those of various specialists, such as estimators and schedulers.
At the end of the program, students presented their project solutions during a celebration before an audience of parents, teachers and school administrators, the ACE board of directors and other invited guests.
Participate in ACE!
If you’d like to experience ACE’s challenges, opportunities and rewards for yourself, just contact the ACE leader listed in the upper right-hand corner of this page.
