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ACE Mentor Students
December 2021
ACE Mentor Students
December 2021
ACE Mentor Students
December 2021
A huge thank you to Suffolk Construction for welcoming our students for tours of the Northeastern University science and laboratory building site on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We started at the top of the building and worked our way down, seeing the stages of construction in real time. We learned a lot! Special shout out to ACE Mentor Mikayla Filippone, Assistant Project Manager at Suffolk, for arranging the tours.
Giving Tuesday 2021
On November 30, 2021, Giving Tuesday, National Gypsum made an amazing $35,000 donation to the ACE Mentor Program of Greater Boston, on the recommendation of the Portsmouth Gold Bond plant. A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible, especially Ray Houle of New England Finish, who insists on using Gold Bond products in his builds, and to Tony Visconti and James Bennett of National Gypsum. We are so grateful for your support, and we loved the tour, where we saw the product being engineered and manufactured. Wow! #givingtuesday2021 #NationalGypsum #goldbondbuildingproducts #acementor #acementorboston #mentoringmatters
Thank you to all our volunteers who helped to assembly supply packages for our students to use at home, and a huge thank you to ACE Mentor Mike Harris of National Development for hosting the day.
Quick Intro to ACE Mentor of Greater Boston
A huge thank you to our alumni Hunessa Louis, Brandon Rodriguez, and Quyen Nguyen for returning to talk about the impact that ACE Mentor Program had on your lives. And a giant shout out of appreciation to Consigli for donating the production of this video!
Our strategic plan
Adopted April 2021
In April 2021, the Board of Directors of the ACE Mentor Program of Greater Boston adopted a strategic plan with four major goals:
1. Fundraising: Increase fundraising for scholarships by 10% annually, while also diversifying fundraising for program operations.
2. Sustainable growth: Increase the number of students served by 10% annually. Increase mentor recruitment proportionally.
3. Alumni engagement: Re-engage alumni as mentors and on ACE committees and the Board. Offer opportunities to ACE alumni to advance their careers.
4. Board and program diversity: Increase the racial diversity of our board and mentor pool. Increase the gender diversity of our board. Build partnerships with other organizations serving BIPOC people around shared goals.
“Congratulations to our 2021 Seniors. We are proud of you, and we look forward to seeing what you do next!
Mike Harris
Scholarship Chair | Mentor
We awarded $168,000 in scholarships this year to 27 seniors for their college and university studies.
Our students plan to pursue degrees in architecture, construction management, engineering, and related fields.
ACE students report that they are better prepared to take on challenging majors thanks to the program.
“The most valuable lesson I have learned from ACE is to communicate. When a project is huge–full of different industry groups–communication allows for understanding and clarity of a project in terms of what is being done and what needs to be done.”
Nick Pham
Scholarship Recipient | ARUP
Congratulations to the Class of 2020
Read about the Class of 2020 scholarships.
Listen to a podcast about ACE
Cindy Stumpo interviewed ACE President Casey Williams for her “Tough As Nails” podcast.
Five events March 8-10, 2021
Our ACE students have been worked hard with their mentors to prepare a design of a residential home. The students designed within a real site plan, real zoning constraints, a budget, green building requirements, and more to simulate the process of designing and building in real life.
The students met weekly online with their mentors. This year, instead of one big Student Showcase, we offered five virtual Student Showcases, one for each team.
