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Mentorship Programs
B E N G A G E D::C O M M U N I T Y O U T R E A C H
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CONTENTS:
1. Past and Present Mentors
2. SPARK Mentorship Program
3. High School Mentorship: Becoming a Problem Solver
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Past and Present Mentors
Ed Antolick May + June
Josh Abbell May + June
Peter Elsbeck May + June
HIGH SCHOOLMENTORSHIP
2015-2016
Stacey Lindbloom September
Fränc Luu October
Ryan Debski November
Kate Lyons December
Christina Dreibholz January
Jake Shoemaker January
Christine Larsen February
Katie Yohe February
Geoff Loo March
Olivia Haley-Schmitt April
Ali DeSantis April
Fon Wang May + June
Sara Ridenour May + June
Roberto Carretero May + June
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SPARKFALL 2014
SPARKSPRING
2015
SPARKFALL 2015
Jake Shoemaker
Charlotte DiGiorgio
Katie Seftas
Katie Lyons
Kamille Ditcher
Emily Perotta
Anthony Prousi
Jake Shoemaker
Charlotte DiGiorgio
Fränc Luu
Stacey Lindbloom
Cory Klawunn
Gurveer Bhuta
David Lee
SPARKSPRING
2016
Ryan Debski
Stacey Lindbloom
Margaret Nersten
Rayma Garcia
Lindsay Walker
Fränc Luu
SPARKFALL 2016
Mike Choi
Charlotte DiGiorgio
Alex Holstein
Jennie Huh
Stacey Lindbloom
Fränc Luu
Margaret Nersten
Brian Nunziato
Anthony Scaccia
Aerin Son
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SPARK Mentorship Program
Spark, a national nonprofit with offices in the
San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago and
Philadelphia, offers a unique program that re-engages
middle school students in their education through
hands-on apprenticeships and a Leadership Curriculum.
Spark partners with schools and workplaces to match
underserved 7th and 8th graders with mentors working
in career fields aligned with the students’ strengths and
interests. Spark’s parallel in-school curriculum reinforces
the link between classrooms and careers while helping
students build skills necessary for success in high school
and beyond. After creating and supporting thousands of
apprenticeships since 2004, the results are clear: Spark
students consistently gain confidence, key skills, and
positive relationships, and have a graduation rate
above the national average.
As young teens transition to young adults, it is the best
time to show them what’s possible. It’s also a time when
7th, 8th and 9th grade students from underserved
communities risk academic disengagement.
Spark Philadelphia has created nearly 400 transformative
apprenticeships since launching in 2013 as Spark’s first
east coast site. Spark currently partners with five schools
in North and West Philadelphia and 20+ company partners.
With its innovative Spark Lab workplace program
and support from local companies, organizations and
institutions, Spark Philadelphia prepares students for
success in high school and reduces the City’s dropout rate.
Spark Mentoring has two large group activity sessions
in the fall and meets for eight weeks in the spring. The
sessions are held during the workday and run for two
hours. Spark provides training and resources to mentors
to help them make the most out of their experience,
including activity guides and project examples.
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MATCH NIGHTSpark facilitates introductions, ice-breaker activities, and
getting off to a strong start for each mentor-student match,
with the cohort as a whole.
WEEK 1Skill of the Week - Networking: Creating relationships to
open up future opportunities.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Mentors get to know
their students and their shared interests.
WEEK 2Skill of the Week - Goal Setting: Identifying something
each mentor wants to accomplish and establishing a way
to get there.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Mentors and
mentees use the Spark Project Planner to create and
submit their plans.
WEEK 3 Skill of the Week - Problem Solving: The process of finding
solutions to difficult issues.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Collecting information
and identifying key ideas to demonstrate.
Mentorship: Week by Week Guide
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WEEK 4Skill of the Week - Creativity: The use of the imagination
or original ideas, which can be practiced and developed.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Mentors focus on
what form their final project should take.
WEEK 5Skill of the Week - Time Management: The ability to
use time effectively through reflection and planning.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Creating a list of
materials needed for projects.
WEEK 6Skill of the Week - Teamwork: The combined actions of a
group of people.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Putting together rough
drafts of the projects.
WEEK 7Skill of the Week - Mapping Your Future: Planning for
academic and career achievement.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Finalizing projects
and preparing it for presentation.
Mentorship: Week by Week Guide
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WEEK 8Skill of the Week - Public Speaking: The act of speaking to
an audience effectively.
Career Discovery Project Milestone: Review the
presentation guide, write out talking points, and practice.
DISCOVERY NIGHTSpark’s culminating project fair celebrates student
impact; with their mentor’s support, each student
displays their Discovery Project and shares their
learning with the community.
Mentorship: Week by Week Guide
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High School Mentorship: Becoming a Problem Solver
Under the leadership of Associate Principal Sara Ridenour,
Ballinger embarked on a semiformal mentorship program,
beginning with one student, in September 2015. The
weekly one-on-one mentorship was designed to teach
problem-solving skills and expose high school students
to the field of architecture and design.
Donovan DeVore and Hannah Layton, both high school
juniors, participated in weekly 2-hour sessions at Ballinger.
The program was divided into months, with one mentor
or group of mentors per month. Ballinger staff members
from a variety of positions volunteered to participate.
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“ This first month was about making Donovan feel more
comfortable with this new environment and preparing him
for the mentorship to come in the following months. We
conducted a design charrette that used his neighborhood
as a site in order to bring the notion of problem solving to
a more familiar context and reveal the sense of agency
that design can inspire. Donovan chose a vacant lot near
his home and decided to intervene with some type of
playful program, which has the potential to be developed
through future mentorships.
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WEEK 1INTRO TO BALLINGER, MODEL MAKING ASSISTANCE
Tour of the office and introductions to office staff, share
personal interests in architecture.
Assistance with CHOP Donor Model.
WEEK 2DRAWING TECHNIQUES/HAND SKETCHING Review of drawing techniques: shading, composition,
speed vs. detail. Practice drawing cityscape views from
the office and training the eye for observation.
WEEK 3WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION An overview of Architecture through the ages, typologies,
movements and factors that are involved in the making of
buildings such as the importance of understanding context,
human behavior, material properties, etc.
WEEK 4DESIGN CHARRETTE Introduction to a Design Charrette – choosing a site, a
condition or design problem and providing design solutions
based on contextual understanding of the site.
Introduction to Architecture Stacey Lindbloom - September 2015
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“ I focused my attention on introducing computer programs:
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Illustrator, and Photoshop. We went
through the basic fundamental of each program throughout
the course of the month, giving a better sense of what’s
possible through technology. Donavan was able to learn the
importance of each program and understood the advantages,
as well as disadvantages. He learned how to utilize each
program to convey certain ideas, and he developed the
ability to interchange between the programs.
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WEEK 1COMPUTER DRAFTING
Introduction to AutoCAD. Overview of layers, line weight,
properties, model space vs. paper space, keyboard shortcuts.
Hands-on exercise: Develop a plan of a street in different
layers: curbs, sidewalks, green space, building footprints.
WEEK 23D MODELING
Overview and advantages of 3D modelling in SketchUp.
Discussion of visualizing design three-dimensionally
and understanding scale and proportions in relation to
context. Hands-on exercise: Import AutoCAD plans and
create 3D model of street using SketchUp.
WEEK 3DIAGRAMS Overview of Adobe Illustrator and its ability elaborate
on design decisions. Hands-on exercise: create diagrams
in Illustrator including sun study, prevailing wind,
pedestrian access, nodes, boundaries and parti.
WEEK 43D RENDERING
Overview of Adobe Photoshop and how it’s used
to represent design intent. Discussion of difference
between realistic and conceptual images. Review of
Photoshop concepts: pixels, layers, overlays, filters.
Hands-on exercise: Create conceptual rendering
that illustrates design intent.
Introduction to Technology Frank Luu - October 2015
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“During my time with Donovan, we explored how abstract
concepts can be expressed in built form. To represent
these ideas, we primarily focused on analog methods of
working to explore ideas quickly and to develop a more
intimate understanding of scale and form. Through
this four week masterclass, Donovan learned that the
foundation of architecture is a clear idea.
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WEEK 1LANDSCAPE AS IDEA
Donovan was presented with a series of evocative
satellite images of the Earth whose “underlying “ideas”
(such as erosion, or rupture) were transformed into a
4”x4” clay cube.
WEEK 2CARVING THE CUBE
We continued our exploration of concepts by subtracting
or adding to the cube as much as possible without losing
the identity of the original cube.
WEEK 3DRAWING TO FIND OUT We sketched our cubes as a way of understanding the
form and spatial conditions we created by carving the
cube. Homework: Draft the Carved Cube’s elevations.
WEEK 4ANALOG TO DIGITAL
The only digital session we had, Donovan imported
the drafted CAD plans I had him do for homework into
Sketchup and made a digital version of his cube that
could be used for further exploration.
Idea, Form, and Thinking with Your Hands Ryan Debski - November 2015
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“The rewarding experience of working with Donovan was
a reminder of the basic foundation of our work. The
challenge of translating programming and planning into
simple, straight-forward concept afforded both of us a
fresh sense of the design process.
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WEEK 1INTRODUCTION TO SCALE, PROGRAMMING AND SPACE PLANNING
Explanation of scale and introduction to programming and
space planning. Hands-on exercises: draw existing house
to scale on graph paper and create adjacency matrix.
WEEK 2SPACE PLANNING IN ACTION
To better understand programming and space planning,
observe existing site and programmed space. Hands-on
exercise: observe Passero’s Coffee Shop, build bubble
diagram, explore alternate fit-outs and alternate sites,
create rough block and stack of spaces.
WEEK 3PROGRAMMING TO FIT-OUT Understand how programming drives fit-out. Hands-on
exercise: Program dream home and develop adjacency matrix.
WEEK 4ILLUSTRATING PROGRAM
Review programming, adjacencies, bubble diagrams.
Hands-on exercise: create bubble diagrams and block
and stack for dream home.
Programming Kate Lyons - December 2015
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“ Donovan and Hannah’s vitality and eagerness to learn
about design and architecture was particularly refreshing.
By introducing them to some of the same early design
exercises that I was exposed to, this mentorship proved to
be reciprocal; working with them reminded me of my early
years in architecture, and how exciting design truly is.
”- Jake Shoemaker
WEEK 1ARCHITECTURE IN THE REAL WORLD
Gain a better understanding of what it means to be an
architect by attending a client meeting, followed by a macro
look at architecture by viewing Google maps of world cities
and spotting the differences.
WEEK 2BECOMING AN ARCHITECT
Presentation illustrating Eric Swanson’s path to becoming
an architect, review of architecture portfolios and overview
of construction administration process. Hands-on exercise:
basics of modeling in SketchUp.
WEEK 3PRACTICING ARCHITECTURE Introduction to reading plans, explanation of the roles
of mechanical and electrical engineers, review of the
sketching fundamentals. Hands-on exercise: Sketch
hands and still life of fruit.
WEEK 4HAND DRAWING
Exploration of hand drawing and blind contour drawing.
Tutorial on pen weights. Contour drawing integrating
pen weights. Tutorial on scale and typical architectural
drawings – plan, section, elevation, axonometric,
perspective. Hands-on exercise: practice typical
architectural drawings.
Architecture - Micro to Macro Christina Dreibholz + Jake Shoemaker - January 2016
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WEEK 1INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING Review of Ballinger’s digital presence and tools, including
Ballinger website, image management tool (OpenAsset),
intranet (B:hive) and social media accounts: LinkedIn,
Twitter, Instagram. Solicit feedback on current trends.
Introduction to Ballinger’s print collateral, including brand
standards, proposals, brochures, master plans and
programming reports.
WEEK 2INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Review useful Photoshop tools and concepts, including
resolution, color space, layers and masks. Hands-on
exercise: “cut out” people from digital photo using
pen tool and add them to 3D rendering. Add shadows
and reflections.
WEEK 3EXPLORING MOOD BOARDS Watch video tutorial about mood boards on Lynda.com.
Hands-on exercise: cut out images and textures from
magazines and specialty paper to create a mood board for
a fictional student center.
WEEK 4INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE INDESIGN
Introduction to useful InDesign tools. Hands-on exercise: Scan
mood boards, manipulate scan using filters in Photoshop,
and create layout in InDesign that integrates type.
“ The tools and strategies we use for marketing can be
applied to anything from homework assignments, to
finding a job, to making a Mother’s Day card. Our goal,
in part, was to expose Hannah and Donovan to the wide
range of communications that originate here, and the
importance we place on making them visually appealing,
concise, and consistent.
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Visit the Tech Center
Marketing Christine Larsen, Katie Yohe, Rob Hassler + Susan Johnson - February 2016
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“It was rewarding to watch Hannah and Donovan
explore and gain confidence with new tools. They
had great curiosity and imagination.
”WEEK 1INTRODUCTION TO 3DSMAX
Worked with downloaded models from Sketchup
Warehouse and the model library to compose scenes.
WEEK 2MAX
Worked in Max to create materials, colors textures
and lighting.
WEEK 3PHOTOSHOP Photoshoped people into Ballinger renderings. Googled
people and cut them out, used effects to make them
match and added shadows.
WEEK 4DIGITAL MODELING IN 3DSMAX
Used polygon tools and other modifiers to create
organic soft bodies and irrational forms.
3D Max Geoff Loo - March 2016
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“ Donovan created a Sci-Fi Publishing Company; he used a
book he was currently reading for color palette and concept
inspiration. Hannah created a movie production company
based on her love of film.
Overall, we saw their interest in Interior Design increase and
their confidence grow. They discovered how texture, pattern,
and color can transform a space and give a personality
that they chose. Both seemed very pleased with their final
renderings showing the transformation of samples in the
library to a 3D representation of the space.
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WEEK 1INTRODUCTION TO INTERIOR DESIGN
Overview of interior design, tour of Material Library,
day-to-day experiences of an interior designer, introduction
to current interior design projects.
WEEK 2MATERIALS
Hands-on exercise: using a given axon drawing and the
Material Library: Invent a commercial client and design
concept, select appropriate finishes for aesthetic and
durability purposes from the materials library and make a
finish tray.
WEEK 3 + 4RENDERING Hands on-exercise: using Photoshop, an axon and
previously selected finishes: apply finishes to axon
drawing, use Photoshop to add depth, pattern, and
design intent.
Interior Design Olivia Haley-Schmitt + Ali DeSantis - April 2016
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“ Our walk and visit to the Powel House was an opportunity
for the students to discover something new in their city.
The visit introduced them to another career in the field of
preservation, and highlighted the hard work that goes into
maintaining a landmark.
” - Fon Wang
“ My idea was to show, in a funny way, development of a
project and also to talk about client-side influences that
are injected into the process and often require a pivot to
another way of thinking. This is different from a school
or a self-initiated project where you can do just about
anything you want and no one will tell you otherwise.
”- Peter Elsbeck
“ I presented the Boeing H47 Focused Factory project
as an example of our corporate portfolio. Through the
presentation of this project, I sought to show how, as
design professionals, we could work collaboratively
with our corporate clients to fundamentally transform
their work environment --in this case by focusing the
engineering and office spaces around the assembly of
the product: the H47 Chinook Helicopter.
”- Josh Abbell
WEEK 1HEALTHCARE PROJECTS
Overview of current healthcare projects, including New
York-Presbyterian and NYU Langone Medical Center.
WEEK 2WALKING TOUR
Tour in Olde City highlighting some of the first examples
of civic architecture in Philadelphia and the United States.
WEEK 3HISTORIC PRESERVATION Overview of historic preservation in the office. Behind
the scenes private tour of the Powel House. Meeting with
the Executive Director of Philadelphia Landmarks House
Museum and caretakers of the historic house. Exposure
to different jobs in preservation.
WEEK 4CORPORATE/ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Presentation of four projects of corporate and academic
nature given by senior designers and project architects.
Exposure to the process of designing, managing and
building a project and all of the players involved.
Project Types Fon Wang, Sara Ridenour, Roberto Carretero, Peter Elsbeck, Josh Abbell + Ed Antolick - May + June 2016
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