ACE Mentor Program of Rochester

Congratulations to the amazing students who participated in the Community Parks Program this year! 🏞️ Students in this program learned about civil engineering, landscape architecture and urban planning over the course of the past few months, and had an opportunity to work on two exciting projects! 🛠️

Students began the year designing a community park for the Highlands Senior Living Community that catered to a multigenerational audience and included great features like benches, nature areas, and more! ⛲️

Later in the year, the teams partnered with Bridges for Brain Injury to design and built fun play and shelter structures for goats and alpacas! 🐐

All of the students had a great year and fantastic presentations, and a special congratulations to those who earned a scholarship or took voucher! We are very proud of you all and can’t wait to watch you succeed in the future. 🧑‍🎓

On Friday, March 27th we hosted our amazing annual ACE Mentor Program of Rochester Graduation Ceremony! This event was a celebration of the amazing work that the students in our three programs, Community Parks, Playhouse, and Trades, completed over the course of the past six months. 👏🏼

We had our largest group yet, with 83 students from 24 different Rochester-area schools as well as homeschooled students. This first post highlights overall celebrations, board member and ACE regional director speakers and fun celebration photos! 🧑‍🎓

We would also like to highlight our three William J Ketchen Emeritus Scholarship Award Winners: Brooklyn, Leeah, and Sahar. Congratulations to you all on a well-deserved award 🌟

Thank you Local 276 for hosting one of the most fun events of the year - the Metal Stud Framing Competition! Students loved the hands-on competition and learned so much from the volunteers - thank you to the following companies who participated (Grayco Corporation, , and RW Dake) and congratulations to the Davis Fetch Corp. who came in 1st place! 🏆🛠️

📣 Calling all ACE Mentor Program students, parents, mentors, sponsors, alumni, and friends! 📣

Please consider supporting our program by purchasing a meal at Chipotle on Saturday, November 8th from 5-9 pm at the West Ridge Road location! 🌯

25% of the sales from this fundraiser will be donated to our program - please come out and support! 🙌🏼