Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

• I am contributing my time to a mentorship program at a Marshall High School in Pasadena, known as ACE or Architecture, Construction, and Engineering. ACE is a program where high school students interact with professional graduates in the field of Architecture, Construction and Engineering, and get to experience each field at first hand.

2.   Who is your contact?

• My contact is Rachel Adams one of the contributing ACE Mentors on the Pasadena Team.

3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?  

• All in all I have completed a total of 21 Hours with in the time frame of 9/19 - 12/12/2013. 

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

• After being introduced to all of our mentors and getting a general background description of each career choice, our meets consisted of fieldtrips to either a accredited university, college, or firm. Throughout these field trips our mentors continuously gave us tips on hands on experiences and projects on how to think in terms of an architect, engineer, and contractor. We as the Pasadena Team are encouraged to work in groups and as a team since the whole experience of being an architect, engineer, or contractor is being dependent upon a high level of communication and interaction. Our mentors have also taught the Pasadena Team the ideas of structure, the role of an Architecture, the role of a Structural Engineers, site planning, architectural planning and elevation, site modeling, and scale conversions. Every year the ACE program does an annual project that each high school team in Los Angeles county is required to complete and present at the end of the year seminar. Our project currently that the Pasadena Team needs to develop as a coming of year product is to design and construct a movie theater; where we're consulting with other ACE Teams from other high schools and fit our project design to coincide with their project design. Ultimately being involved in the ACE program has taught me a great deal on a new outlook on Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.