Background National Engineers Week Future City Competition is a nationwide program for 7 th and 8 th grade students to foster their interest in math, science and engineering.
Teams compete on a regional level and the winner advances to the national competition.
Components Teams of students work with a volunteer engineer and a teacher to design and build a model of a future city. Each team writes an essay on an engineering topic and gives a verbal presentation of their future city to a panel of judges at the regional competition. The South Florida competition Teams from middle schools throughout South Florida register for the competition in September. Intermediate competition deadlines are in November and early January, and the regional competition is in late January. The date and location of the regional finals varies from year to year but is generally held in South Florida.