ACE Awards $99,000 in Scholarships
The Cleveland affiliate of the ACE Mentor program awarded $99,000 in scholarships to CMSD high school seniors during the organization's annual banquet.
ACE stands for architecture, construction and engineering. The mentoring program, which is designed to motivate students to pursue careers in the industry, operates in 60 cities across the country.
This year in Cleveland, 95 mentors from design and construction companies have mentored 120 students from the John Hay Campus and New Tech West, East Tech, James Ford Rhodes, Max S. Hayes and Collinwood high schools.
ACE students attend 15 after school sessions with mentors for two hour and learn about the design, construction and engineering industries and application to specific projects.
The students hve visits to construction sites and local businesses and work on design projects that are presented at the banquet. Students from the six schools showed off their design projects to family, friends, mentors and school officials at WIndows on the River on April 21, 2015.
This year's focus was on developing designs, strategies or policies for water management and conservation, specifically in relation to Northeast Ohio.
Margaret Bernstein, director of advocacy and community initiatives at WKYC -TV 3, spoke at the event and District CEO Eric Gordon introduced CMSD teachers involved in the program
Support for the scholarships comes from University Hospitals, the Cleveland Foundation, Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the University of Akron College of Engineering, Cuyahoga Community College and eight companies and organizations in the design and construction industry: Gilbane Building Co., Turner Construction, the Construction Employers Association, Independence Excavating, Rudd Equipment, Regency Construction Services, the Chas. E. Phipps Co. and the National Association of Women in Construction.
Construction Employers Association again awarded a $1,500 scholarship, this year to Bryan Stombaugh, a senior at John Hay High School.
To view Banquet hightlights, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUHCpt4r2o&feature=youtu.be