Architecture Foundation of Oregon

Architects in Schools Exhibit - Art in Bloom
2025-05-10 11:00 - 2025-05-11 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
You are invited to an event celebrating the hard work of our 2024-25 Architects in Schools students in Southern Oregon! This is our culminating event of the season, where participating students exhibit the work they have completed during their Architects in Schools residencies.
This Architects in Schools season was another huge success, reaching thousands of students across the state of Oregon. Over 150 design and building professionals have spent over 3,000 volunteer hours in classrooms this year, educating students on the built environment and the process of designing and building communities.
Student work will be exhibited at Art in Bloom on May 10 from 11:00am-5:00pm and May 11 from 11:00am-4:00pm. The exhibit is free, kid friendly and open to the public.
Architects in Schools Exhibit Reception
Art in Bloom
Saturday, May 10, 11:00am-5:00pm
Sunday, May 11, 11:00am-4:00pm
Downtown Medford, near Lithia Commons

2025 Michael Ford’s Hip Hop Architecture Scholarship
2025-05-15 - 2025-05-19
2025 Michael ford hiphop architecture scholarship
Organized by Hip Hop Architecture
The Michael Ford Hip Hop Architecture Scholarship is back! Thanks to our sponsor Michigan Central, we are providing previous Hip Hop Architecture Camp participants, and scholarship winners with a $10,000.00 scholarship to advance their interest in Architecture, Urban Planning, or Interior Design.
Eligibility Requirements:
For High School Seniors:

Applicants must have participated in a previous Hip Hop Architecture Camp and must accepted into a 4-year college or university to study architecture or a related field.

For Current College Students:

Applicants should have participated in the Hip Hop Architecture Camp, Course, or Internship Program.
Be enrolled in a 4 Year College in a related field.
The scholarship is available to former scholarship recipients.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Scholarship Recipient Announcement: June 9, 2025

When: Thursday, May 15th, 2025 DEADLINE
Where: Online Application
Serving: High School and College students
Service Area: Nationwide
Topic: Architecture, Urban Planning, or Interior Design
Program Type: Scholarship
Cost: Free
Apply

MESA Day 2025
2025-05-16 | Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, 97201, United States
mesa day 2025
Hosted by Oregon MESA
We are so excited to announce MESA’s culminating event of the year: MESA Day 2025, happening on Friday, May 16th 2025! The event is an opportunity for all of our middle and high school students to engage in hands-on competition, career exploration, and college preparation.
After showcasing their projects last month at Demo Day, our young inventors will travel from all over the state to the Portland State University campus from to participate in engineering challenges centered around the theme of Climate Action: Designing for Environmental Sustainability, meet inspiring STEM professionals, visit college booths, and showcase their annual projects.
While MESA Day isn’t open to the public, we hope you will join us as a volunteer during the event on May 16th and on the days leading up to it! Joining us as a volunteer is the perfect way to support our mission of a more equitable STEM future and get a front row seat to witness our students’ ingenuity! You can bring your company or organization to MESA Day and join us with your team, or you can explore the wide variety of individual roles and shifts we are offering our MESA volunteers. Check out our volunteer form and sign up today!
When: Friday, May 16th
Where: Portland State University
Serving: 6th-12th grade students
Service Area: Oregon
Topic: STEM, Environmental Design
Program Type: Event
Cost: Free

ASFS - High School Design Competition
2025-05-16
ASFS – High School design competition
Hosted by Architectural Foundation of San Fransisco
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco’s Fifty-Sixth annual High School Design Competition. This is an exciting competition where high school students put their design skills, creativity, spatial and analytical thinking and craftsmanship to the test. With the guidance of instructors – or in some cases for those who opt to treat this creative challenge as an independent study endeavor – high school students conceptualize a design and communicate their solutions through drawings, models and writing. Participation in this design exercise is open to all high school levels students throughout the world. This competition provides young thinkers with the opportunity to engage in what is a very unique learning project.
The Architectural Foundation of San Francisco is a nonprofit educational organization that involves students in a
mentored appreciation of architecture, engineering, construction and the design process. San Francisco reigns as one of the most architecturally significant and beautiful cities in the world. The environment of architectural diversity is extremely important to the vitality of this great city. Everywhere, the vibrant and complex layering of landscape,
color, cultures and light produces experiences that unexpectedly reveal themselves. Since its inception in 1990, the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco has endeavored to reach out to the general public both locally and globally to establish an open dialogue on the architectural future of this community and beyond.
To receive more information about the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco, please visit www.afsf.org or email Executive Director, Alan Sandler, at alan@afsf.org.
For specific competition-related inquiries and/or to receive
competition updates, please contact Ryan Lee at ryan@afsf.org.
Competition Information: PDF
When: Competition Entries Due: Friday, May 16th, 2025
Where: Online
Serving: All High School students
Service Area: Worldwide
Topic: Civil Engineering
Program Type: Competition
Cost: $0
To Register, Email ryan@afsf.org

Oregon Tradeswomen's Career Fair
2025-05-16 | NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center, 16021 Northeast Airport Way, Portland, Oregon, 97230
Oregon Tradeswomen’s Career Fair
Hosted by Oregon Tradeswomen
While focused on presenting these career options to female-identified job seekers, Oregon Tradeswomen’s Career Fair is open to everyone! Most workshops are managed by tradeswomen, demonstrating the power and potential of a truly diverse workforce.
Oregon Tradeswomen’s goal is to offer middle and high school students a unique educational opportunity, and introduce the many career options available in the trades where they can earn while they learn and access debt-free career education!
School Day at Oregon Tradeswomen’s annual Career Fair offers a unique, hands-on opportunity for students to learn about apprenticeship and career training opportunities after high school without the burden of college debt.
The interactive, hands-on learning opportunities allow students to use the tools of the trades, talk directly with tradeswomen about the work they do, and gain knowledge about satisfying, high-paying careers in the construction trades.
All students are welcome to attend, including students of CTE programs, and other organized youth groups.
When: Friday, May 16th
Where: NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center
Serving: Middle School & High School Students
Service Area: Portland Metro
Topic: Several career paths
Program Type: Career Fair
Cost: Free
Register Your School

Architects in Schools Exhibit - OMSI
2025-05-17 11:00 - 17:00 | OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, Oregon, 97214
You are invited to an event celebrating the hard work of our 2024-25 Architects in Schools students in the Portland Metro area! This is our culminating event of the season, where participating students exhibit the work they have completed during their Architects in Schools residencies.
This Architects in Schools season was another huge success, reaching thousands of students across the state of Oregon. Over 150 design and building professionals have spent over 3,000 volunteer hours in classrooms this year, educating students on the built environment and the process of designing and building communities.
Student work will be exhibited at OMSI on May 17 from 11am-5pm. Each exhibiting student receives free OMSI admission for themselves and one guest. All other guests will need to purchase OMSI admission (purchase here). The exhibit is kid friendly and open to the public.
Want to help bring AiS exhibits to life? Sign up to volunteer!
Architects in Schools Exhibit Reception
OMSI
Saturday, May 17
11:00am-5:00pm
OMSI – Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR 97214
