Future City is an international engineering competition sponsored by the DiscoverE organization. Our mission (using the Future City curriculum and ultimately getting involved in the competition) is project-based, hands-on, authentic, relevant learning that teaches the Engineering Design Process. Students must use knowledge of history, geography, writing, math (for that scale model), innovating, project-management, design thinking and a dozen other topics.

Working in teams with an educator and STEM mentor, students participating in Future City are challenged to imagine what it would be like to walk down the main street of a city at least 100 years in the future. They’ll answer questions like:

• What do you see, hear, smell, and feel?

• How do the people who live in your future city describe it?

• What is different from today? What is futuristic and innovative?

As the team explores these questions, they’ll also address this year’s Climate Change Challenge: Choose a climate change impact and design one innovative and futuristic climate change adaptation and one mitigation strategy to keep your residents healthy and safe.

Challenge: Choose a climate change impact and design one innovative and futuristic climate change adaptation and one mitigation strategy to keep your residents healthy and safe.

Ultimate Goal: Innovating solutions to the topic of the year in your city (anywhere in the Universe) 100 years in the future but before you can do that, you have to study urban planning, how governments work, etc. etc. Along the way there are several deliverables...so there are mini-projects in this project.