2010 Third Place Team

 3rd Place Ometepe Veritas Home School Team: Charlotte Taylor, Cody Hickman, Micael Ekstrom

Now entering its 18^th year, the Future City Competition invites seventh and eighth graders nationwide to create the cities of tomorrow and encourages interest in science, technology, engineering and math through hands-on applications. 

The Arizona regional competition gets underway with the new school year in the fall and culminates with the regional finals, taking place at University Public School (formerly Phoenix Preparatory Academy) in Phoenix, AZ on January 23, 2010. One winning team from Arizona will qualify for a trip to the national finals in Washington DC, which take place during Engineer’s Week, February 15-17, 2010.

The National Finals Grand Prize winners receive a trip to U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, provided by National Finals host Bentley Systems, Inc.

The second and third prize winners receive $5,000 and $2,000 scholarships for their schools’ technology programs.

NATIONAL 2009 WINNERS FROM OHIO

2009 Arizona Region Future City CompetitionTM

Complete List of Award Winners

Thirty-seven (37) awards were handed out at the 12 City Competition Academy. A special .city award. in each of the following areas: Best Computer Model, Best Essay, Best Abstract, Best Scale Model, or Best Team Presentation was presented to the student team that most exemplified each award criteria.

Members of professional engineering societies were on campus to present 22 of the 37 awards todeserving student teams.  

Congratulations again to this years first place team. The City of Abundaqua of Veritas Home schoolers (Phoenix). Middle school students, Noah O.Connor, Joshua Ekstrom, and Alex Janss, along with their teacher, Mary Ann Ekstrom, and volunteer engineer mentor, Kenneth Ekstrom, will travel to Washington, DC to compete in the National Future City Competition th  annual Arizona Region Future TM   on Saturday, January 24, 2009 at the Phoenix PreparatoryTM , February 17-18, 2009.

Front Row: (left to right) Noah O.Connor, Joshua Ekstrom, and Alex Janss

Back Row: (left to right) Mary Ann Ekstrom (teacher), Kenneth Ekstrom (engineer mentor), and Alan Faulkner (1st  Place Team and Arizona Region Winner. 

2009 Third Place Team's Future City

 

Welcome to Future City, a national competition you'll find as fulfilling as it is fun for your students. Now in its 18th year, the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is a program developed for seventh and eighth grade students to help them discover and foster interests in math, science and engineering. As you'll soon discover, it's a program that's both challenging and stimulating for everyone involved.

You'll find three useful tools to help you prepare for this competition. Your handbook is the most comprehensive source for rules, instructions, general information and useful preparation tips and techniques. This website is also a good source for timely updates about the competition, and contains information not found in the handbook. For instance, it features instructions for using the SIMCITY 4 Deluxe software, and a section that allows you to print all the necessary forms for entering the competition. There's also a CD-ROM which provides video overviews of the competition's categories. (If you don't have it already, contact your Regional Coordinator for a copy.)

What is the Future City?

The National Engineers Week Future® City Competition (www.futurecity.org) is an example of problem based learning with computer simulation.  It is an integrated, multidisciplinary, holistic approach to relevant issues and is a strong example of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) education that addresses national and state academic content standards.  The program asks 7th and 8th grade students from around the nation to team with engineer-volunteer mentors to create — first on computer and then in large, three-dimensional models — their visions of the city of tomorrow. To truly affect the ways students and general public perceive engineering it is important for engineers to use the right messages.   Too often engineers focus their messages to young students on the process of becoming an engineer and overlook messages on the value of an engineering career. The National Engineers Week Foundation has been engaged with two projects specifically to research and develop messages around messages to convey that engineering is a helping profession. These messages also convey the value of teamwork and creativity. Learn more from ‘Engineer Your Life’ and ‘Changing the Conversation’ at www.eweek.org

Super City

Prior Future Cities Example

Arizona Water Website: 

The Young Professionals Committee was pleased to award Team Abundaqua with the Best Use of Water Environmental Resources Award  for 2009.

The team’s creativity and originality in approaching the conservation of natural resources, water treatment and distribution, and wastewater collection and treatment made Abundaqua the ideal recipient of the AZ Water Association Award.

 
Link to Arizona Water Association's website and pictures of their prize winners:

https://www.azwater.org/Committees/YoungProfessionals/futurecities/2009.aspx