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Future City Winners!
Future City is a hands-on cross-curricular educational program that brings STEM to life for students in grades 6 through 8th grades. This is our second time competing in this global agency-based challenge! Using the Engineering Design Process and project management skills, students showcased their solutions to a city-wide sustainability issue. This year's challenge asked students to address climate change mitigation effort in their newly created and futuristic city, along with the bonus of designing features that 'electrify the future'! Team website: https://futurecity.org/
Our team created their D.O.M.E.: 'District of Manipulating Electricity' to generate electricity from harvesting lightning! Their dome was built to conduct the energy from the lightning throughout the frame, which would then run to a homemade transducer! It also features a magnetic monorail and 4 other mini domes that highlight innovative solutions to the challenge. The team also submitted a lengthy and detailed essay, as well as blueprints, and pictures of the build. The team earned high scores and their award also included $150 in prize earnings! Well done 8th grade!! We are proud of you! If you are interested in reading more, check out their essay!
Project Green School Submission Complete!
New contest for this year: SVMS’s Gifted fifth and sixth grade gifted teams submitted their final proposals, budget, and designs for outdoor learning classroom/redesigned spaces through a competition called, ‘Project
Green Schools’! https://projectgreenschools.org/
Project Green Schools challenges schools across the country to develop and implement a meaningful outdoor classroom and learning spaces. Students research, innovate, plan, and build a prototype that is submitted towards awards, including one grand prize to further enhance an existing space. Students applied the STEM/Engineering and Design Standards, including Gifted standards to reimagine new methods according to 13 Green Pathways, such as energy, land use, waste management, water, green living and consumerism, transportation, and more! Dr. Schucker spoke on behalf of this project at both the state and national gifted conferences (PAGE and NAGC), sharing more about the students' progress with the curriculum. Results will be announced in May. Let’s cheer on our Gifted fifth and sixth grade teams to ‘Project Green School’ victory!
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