How You Can Participate!

Future City is a transformative program that engages middle-school students' imaginations and helps them create STEM-related skills as they build their ideal city, explore their problem-solving know-how, and strengthen their 21st century skills.

If you're interested in helping with the NC Future City Regional Competition, please complete our ONLINE FORM and we will be in touch shortly!

Sponsor a Team

Sponsors are integral to the continued success of Future City. You can sponsor a team or a Special Award at our Regional Competition. If you would like to sponsor a team or become a regional competition sponsor, please contact Charlie Townsend, ctownsend@withersravenel.com or Nancy Shaw, ncshaw@ncsu.edu

Teach or Coach a Team

Lead your students through a project-based learning experience. Help them tackle a relevant citywide sustainability issue as they imagine, research, brainstorm, design, and build cities of the future. Along the way, they’ll discover engineering, develop a meaningful relationship with an engineering mentor, become more aware citizens, and develop their 21st century skills.

Be a Virtual Mentor

Mentors add connections to real-life engineering experiences, serve as a technical coach, and help translate the academic to the real world of engineering. Mentors will work educators and students sharing real-life STEM experiences, offering technical guidance, and helping to translate academic concepts to the real world of engineering and city design.

Serve as a Judge

Easy-to-use assessment tools (called rubrics) help judges evaluate work. Some judging can be done virtually, or judge the fun-filled one-day team presentation experience! Future City provides an authentic STEM experience for middle school students around the country. Engineers created this competition and its success is dependent upon continued support from industry professionals. Serving as a judge is easy and fun.

Volunteer to Help with Competition Day

Volunteers assist with all aspects of the regional competitions including team check-in, awards and gifts distribution, time keeping, and other logistical requirements. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to apply math, science, and technology to real-world engineering problems. Along the way they’ll discover engineering, uncover hidden talents, gain confidence, and flex their problem solving skills. We need your help. Get involved and volunteer!