Joining Forces to Build a Better Future
At ACE Leadership High School we’re determined to transform career and technical education, and we’re not going it alone. Partnerships with industry are key to our mission of preparing students to be leaders on any path they choose.
ACE stands for architecture, construction and engineering and it’s a place where kids get their hands dirty in a purposeful--if sometimes a little disorderly--environment. A place where they learn through projects like using ancient building techniques to build adobe ovens that have come into vogue for their sustainability benefits for residential and commercial buildings. The project, developed with the help of Associated General Contractor (AGC) partners, rolls Science, New Mexico History, and Geometry into one productive hands-on experience. To an outsider, though, building adobe ovens might not seem to be the best way to prepare kids to go to college and/or work.
