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Future City Competition. The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for students. Future City Competition. Future City Competition is four-part competition:
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Future City Competition The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for students.
Future City Competition Future City Competition is four-part competition: • Students utilize SimCity software to create a city of the future • Students write an abstract and essay • Students build a model of their future city using recycled materials • Students deliver a presentation to a panel of judges
Part One of Competition Preparation: SimCity 4 Deluxe
Research, research…
Mrs. Johnson, I am way too busy researching to pose for a picture right now!
Brainstorming is so much more fun when we get to write on the board…
No really, no need to help me with this. By all means, take a picture of me instead.
Another inch and my hair will completely block my view…mission complete!
Mr. Stephen Mitchell, LEED Certified Architect Engineers, Mrs. Parks & Mrs. Pellegrino
The “look like your having tons of fun and be crazy” picture
Future SunSand rooftop gardens
The foundation of SunSand City
Original SunSand Background: R.I.P.
Residential Layout Begins
To the untrained eye: empty bottles on plywood To the Future City Team: the beginning of their vision becoming a reality
I am so glad that SunSand City has organic rooftop gardens...finally I am not the only health conscious person in this room!
I have made hundreds of these! Whose idea was it to have cacti in our model? Yeah. I was dreaming about making these last night. We might have reconsidered the desert location.
Engineering skills are put to practice!
buildings and homes of SunSand City