MURFREESBORO — One
of 17 high school students attending the MTSU ACE Summer Camp, Dylan Akers
obtains his love for building and design through DNA.
His father, Chris Akers, is a civil engineer with Littlejohn
Engineering Associates, an S&ME company, in Nashville. And the passion
flowed to Dylan, 17, a rising Franklin (Tennessee) High School senior.
The ACE Mentor Program camp, which is free to participants
and the only one in the U.S. this summer, brings students from Atlanta,
Birmingham, Brentwood, Nashville, Murfreesboro and elsewhere to learn about
architecture, construction and engineering — hence the ACE acronym.
To view video about the camp, visithttps://youtu.be/7jP3pr1WXUM.
“It’s a high school mentoring program that encourages
students through mentoring and scholarships to pursue careers in these
disciplines,” said Tom Gormley, associate professor in the MTSU School of
Concrete and Construction.
Led locally by Jack Tipton and Dan Ryan and facilitated by
MTSU faculty, ACE mentors, whose companies helped pay half of the students’
camp fees, hope their recruiting efforts attract the teenagers after finishing
college. Tipton is director of ACE regional programs for the Southeast and Ryan
is ACE Mentor Program of Greater Nashville vice president.
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