INDIANAPOLIS — The Architecture Construction and Engineering (ACE) Student Presentation and Scholarship Awards were recently held at the Indianapolis Marriott East Hotel. Six schools, including the Walker Career Center (WCC), from around the Indianapolis area participated. The event highlighted students’ work on a design challenge for a new Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) fire station.
The Walker Career Center sponsored a group of 26 students who have during the 2014-2015 school year, taken field trips to a material testing facility, construction sites, electrical companies, the Ball State University Indianapolis Center, and a fire station. From each of these locations the students learned from industry professionals in the trades of construction, architecture or engineering. Students divided into three groups and began to design and engineer a fire station for IMS. Students, mentors and sponsors dedicated numerous hours and intense design sessions that resulted in a final solution, which was presented to mentors, industry professionals and community leaders.
The evening also included scholarships presentations, which were given to students based on their interest in the three facets of the ACE Program (Architecture, Construction and Engineering). During this first year of the ACE Program two students, Truman Hardiman and Andrew Gable, were each recipients of $1,000 awards with two additional students, Samantha Greiner and Atlanta Phelps, being awarded $4,000 each in scholarship money.
