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Future City Engineering Competition

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Future City Engineering Competition

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  1. Future City Engineering Competition

  2. What is Future City? • <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G_pdOct9zyg?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  3. What does it look like?

  4. What is my role as team coach? • Help arrange times in the building for the teams to meet. • Help make appointments for the mentor engineer to visit, Skype, phone or email your team for extra help. (Note: The District Science Specialist and CTE department are working on gathering engineers, but your PTA may be of help finding a parent in that field who may want to work with your school). • Work with your STS to make sure the SimCity software is loaded at school. • Help kids collect recyclable materials for the build portion of the project. • Review the narrative and presentation materials and give feedback for improvement.

  5. Part i: SimCity • You will get the download when your school registers. • Let students explore or teach each other about SimCity (see pg 13 of the handbook) • Students must use the “medium city” template on the software. (Futurecity.org/resources) • Must have a city that progresses 150 years and has at least 50,000 people. • Create a name for your city. • Use the rubric on page 16 of the handbook for guidance.

  6. Part ii: Essay • This year’s topic Transportation. • Essay is 1,000 word MAX. • Use pgs 20-21 to question the kids about runoff and get them thinking. Help them find some resources (pg 22) to learn more about runoff, or meet with your mentor engineer for extra help. • Use the Research Essay form on pg 31 (or online futurecity.org/forms)

  7. Part iii: Narrative • (500 word MAX)-pg 32 of handbook • Students write a narrative describing their future city’s key features and design attributes. The purpose of the City Narrative is to give the judges a quick overview of the future city’s infrastructure and its public services. • Peer review of work, teacher review as well as support from the mentor engineer is suggested to make the work the best it can be. • Use the Narrative form on pg 35 of the handbook.

  8. Part iV: Build Model • Set a spending limit for materials-it can’t be more than $100 worth of purchased supplies. See the lists of dos and don’ts on pg 36. • Pg 42 has a form to sign that you didn’t overspend. • Use the scoring rubric on pg 38 to guide the building of the model.

  9. Final: Presentation • Prepare a 7 minute presentation on their future city and be able to answer questions from judges. Pg 44 for suggestions. • Use the scoring rubric on pg 47 to prepare for the presentation. • Points/Deductions • Review the list on pg 53 to make sure you stay in the guidelines.

  10. How do I form teams? Let all your students know about the opportunity to participate, open enrollment. • Option 1 (preferred): Have as many 3-person (yes, they must be 3) teams as you need. Host a school-level competition to select the 2 best teams to send to District if needed. • Option 2 (for schools with very few participants): Have one “class level” team that divides up the work between them, BUT you must then select 3 students to represent the school at District. This is not a problem this year, but next year, there is a potential for disaster if a team is selected to go to the national competition (big fights could ensue over which 3 get to go).

  11. Timeline for this year Sept-Oct • SimCity to design their virtual city. • Students start planning/writing research essay. Oct-Nov • Build model city from recyclables • Start work writing the narrative and presentation. Nov-Dec • Practice the presentation. • Select the top 2 teams to represent your school at district competition • Dec 6-District Level Future City competition

  12. NEXT YEAR… • We’ll start in August/September (the theme and info will be out in March to start thinking about). • The district competition will be either in December or January so that our students are eligible to compete in the national competition.

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