Three high school students from the Alignment Collaborative for Education's internship program, Avery Lilly, Malcolm Wilson, and Gia Mangriotis, designed and painted a mural on a storage trailer outside the Taylor YMCA in Elgin. The project was part of ACE's first visual arts internship, which aims to provide students with hands-on experience and academic credit. The interns received guidance on building their portfolios and websites, as well as help designing business cards. Fifty-five different organizations hosted the interns, who are paid either fully or through grants and donors. The mural was unveiled on Monday and is part of a $250,000 investment by the community and schools in ACE's program this summer.