The West Palm Beach Brightline Station signs were installed earlier this month at the Florida Rail project. Chen Moore and Associates provided utility coordination, site plan coordination, civil engineering design, and the design of paving, grading, and drainage, water and sewer mains and services, pavement markings and signage and construction administration.
CMA staff members Suzanne Dombrowski, P.E. and Mike Wood presented to students at Meadow Park Elementary School in West Palm Beach for their STEM Career Day on May 17. The presentations entailed what is an engineer, fields of engineers, how to become an engineer and their personal paths to becoming an engineer.
Happy Mother’s Day From CMA!
This week Chen Moore and Associates joined Broward County in turning TURQUOISE for lung cancer awareness. Staff members wore turquoise for the day on May 11. For more information about the campaign, please visit http://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/lung-force/
May The 4th Be With You
Happy Earth Day From CMA!
CMA staff Teresa Chapman, Paula Fonseca and Brent Whitfield participated in the ﾓFeels Like Homeﾔ initiative with Adopt-A-Family. Adopt-A-Family is a non-profit that provides housing to homeless families. They also provide after-school programs and other services to the children housed in their facilities. CMA decorated one of the units to accommodate a young mother and her three-year-old daughter. Next week, they will be moving into an apartment provided by Adopt-A-Family to re-start their lives. CMAﾒs Community Outreach Committee bought supplies and decorations to make the unit feel like home for this young family. For more information on this program, please visit http://bit.ly/20SfA4s
CMAﾒs Miami staff attended the AWWA Region VII ﾓBest of the Bestﾔ Drinking Water Taste Test at Rusty Pelican Restaurant in Key Biscayne last week. The event highlights each utilities success in producing safe drinking water for its customers.
CMA Associate Engineer Teresa Chapman will be one of the guest panelists for the Transforming Technology in Your Organization Panel at the 2017 Esri Public Sector GIS Conference at the Palm Beach Convention Center on April 11th. Teresa was invited to attend by Esri staff and will represent the Esri Young Professional Network. The panel will discuss how the ArcGIS Platform has and can be used to reach your organizational goals. Teresa and other panelists will discuss their experiences implementing the ArcGIS platform to help harness the maximum potential of their organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.esri.com/events/public-sector
CMA President Peter Moore, P.E., LEED AP, F.ASCE, spoke with over 60 students from the App-titude Internship program for nearly two hours at the Keller Science Theater at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science. The App-titude Internship is a one of a kind internship through the Museumﾒs STEM Center for Education and Career Development. The APP-titude program advances the skills of academically minded students in grades 11 and 12 throughout Broward County. The multi-year project provides students with the opportunity to earn college credits from Florida Atlantic University and volunteer hours while advancing their knowledge in STEM education and careers and learning imperative applied skills such as team work, communication and decision-making. Many of these students will go on to college to major in computer science and engineering.
