Held in mid-May at Southwest State University, Marshall. Explore Your Future with Future City Competition New this year, Future City Competition serves students in 7th and 8th grade. Sponsored by the National Engineers Week, this national program introduces students to engineering with the popular SimCity software. Students design future cities with simulation software, build scale models, write essays and give oral reports on their city's design. Students better understand practical applications of math, science, social studies and computer learning as they plan their own cities.
Teams work with engineers assigned to support their learning.
While learning about cities, students develop a project plan, work in teams, write an essay about the communication system of their city, develop a scale model with recycled materials, and make an oral presentation of their work at a regional competition on January 26, 2002. One team wins a free trip to compete at Nationals in Washington, D.C., Feb 17-23, 2002. Register your school by October 11, 2001. One three-student team may represent your school at Regional Competition, January 26, 2002. You will receive a FCC Teacher Handbook, SimCity software, and information about your mentoring engineer upon receipt of your registration.