by Ada Anderson '23 Together with their team member, two BC sisters leverage their service experience to win a national real estate case competition - Published on June 08, 2021 In high school, sisters Eva and Catherine (CeeCee) Van Pelt spent their free time volunteering in a home for Alzheimer’s patients, creating connections with residents and discovering the lasting benefits of service. Little did they know that their experience socializing with older adults would later help them and their team win $5,000 in a national affordable housing case competition at Boston College. RELATED: This spring, Eva ’22, CeeCee ’24, and Alex Felitto ’24 took home first place in the third annual case competition sponsored by the Joseph E. Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action. Their task was to compete against 45 other teams in crafting a plausible proposal for affordable housing: a senior apartment complex on a surface parking lot in Quincy, Massachusetts.