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| Brainstorm Sesh |
This week at ACE, we heard from the first of our mentors...Me! I talked to the students about the work that I do as a civil engineer & how it relates to their ongoing project of designing a coffee shop. Earthwork, utilities, and stormwater drainage. Extremely interesting stuff! We also had a guest mentor stop in to talk about landscape architecture. Slightly less interesting stuff! It became apparent to me during my presentation that when explaining something that we spend every day doing it may seem simple to us, but can easily be confusing to someone on the outside. My challenge was to simplify and make this stuff relatable to young people who are getting in at the ground level.
Afterwards the students broke up into 2 teams. Each team developed a floor plan and presented it to the rest of the team. While each team presented their plan, we talked about the ideas and continued to improve what the teams put together. Ideas like a patio garden, how customer seating would be laid out and the overall flow of the cafe were discussed. The cafe's floorplan was starting to become a product of the students.
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