Future City Competition

Not to be confused with Future Cities, one of the UK's Catapult centres.

Future City Competition is a national competition in the United States that focuses on improving student's math, engineering, and science skills. The program is open to students in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades who attend a public, private or home school.

The National Engineers Week Future City Competition (www.futurecity.org) is an example of problem based learning with computer simulation. It is an example of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) education. The program asks 6th, 7th and 8th grade students from around the nation to team with engineer-volunteer mentors to create — first on computer and then in three-dimensional models — their visions of the city of tomorrow. The Future City Competition, organized under the National Engineers Week Foundation, has been operating under the National Engineers Week Future City Competition charter since 1992.

Aims

The aim of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide an exciting educational engineering program for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with an inquiry-based application to present their vision of a city of the future.

Benefits

National Academic Content Standards

The Future City Competition components are strongly correlated to the National Academic Standards, particularly those connected to STEM education

State Academic Content Standards

State Academic Standards are based on the National Academic Standards.

Team members represent their ideas and proposals in several ways:

Winners and Theme of the 2006–2007

*Theme: Fuel Cells

Winners and Theme of the 2007–2008

*Theme: Urban Disasters

Winners and Theme of the 2008–2009

 *Theme: Water

Winners of the 2009–2010

Winners and Theme of the 2013–2014

*Theme: Tomorrow's Transit

External links

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