Video: Future City on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Three students from Gates Intermediate School in Scituate, Mass., minutes away from their final presentation in a national engineering contest. They spent six months designing a whole city. And though only in middle school, they already knew more about urban planning than most adults... Read More About Future City on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Audio: Future City on Voice of America
The year is 2171. The place: a town of 50,000, east of Reykjavik, Iceland. The scene: the final round of the 2009 Future City Competition in a ballroom in a Washington, D.C. hotel. Abby Sharp, Tom Krajnak and Wyatt Peery from Bexley Middle School in Ohio stand before a packed audience of their peers, teachers, parents and judges to present their entry: Novo Mondum... Read More About Future City on Voice of America
Video: Future City Reel
The National Engineers Week Future City aims to stir interest in science, technology, engineering and math among young people. Students work in teams under the guidance of a teacher and a volunteer engineer-mentor to design and build a city of tomorrow. They must also conduct research for an essay on a pressing social need. This year, the essay centers on ways to improve water use by creating a home system that minimizes the use of municipal or externally supplied water for its daily requirements. Watch the Future City Reel on YouTube!