Future City Competition

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.

Future City Regional Competitions will be held in January 2009 in 40 regions across the country. First-place winners from each qualifying regional competition receive an all-expense-paid trip to the 17th annual Future City National Finals in Washington, D.C., February 16-18, 2009 during National Engineers Week. The national grand prize is a trip to U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. More than 30,000 students from 1,100 middle schools are expected to participate nationwide.

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[H3kticGaming]

@creepy46 ahhh im in Indiana :(

[tacosdaname]

Well, good luck to you!

[GravityBeats]

@tacosdaname Our city 'Celedon' is going also. See you in D.C.

[tacosdaname]

Our team, from OK, got first in regionals, which is suprising, because nobody has any experience from this before. See you other winners in DC!

[DPhreshENT]

east millbrook u know them of course we came in tied with 5th lolz we will get every one next year

[KikiPoloCP]

tomarrow my class presenting in seattle im exited! we have gotten good places in the past years, but i do need to explain something to them that we have on our model we have water coming out of a volcano. and im upst i can't present because im only in 6th grade :(

[FightingColts12]

we did a "perfect society" thing similar to this which we actually present tomoro

[DisturbedDood119]

Yeah! Our smalltown Bexley, Ohio brought home the Nationals trophy!

[DisturbedDood119]

Our school competed, the Bexley Lions, we brought home the first place trophy ^.^

Our smalltown, nothing happens, this was amazing.

[empower202]

i competed, won first place in North Carolina, and just got back from Nationals, Ohio won first place...again