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Area 10th-grade students in the Access to College Education (ACE) program learned about the hospitality industry firsthand during a conference at Cornell 's Statler Hotel titled "The Hospitality Industry/Hospitality Education" on Dec. 13. Here, ACE students Lacey Meyerman, left, and Heather Stevens, right, from Candor High School get instruction from Hotel School senior Amy Fitzgerald in the Statler's Food Preparation Technique Lab. ACE is a partnership among 14 local school districts and Cornell, Ithaca College, SUNY Cortland and Tompkins-Cortland Community College.