Future City

I founded the Future City Competition team program for DA Smith and Coppinville Jr High School. Future City Program goals was an opportunity I did not want to pass up on for these students. Building student skills and knowledge to prepare them for the world around them, as well as, future career possibilities encompassed with the engineering and design process is a desire of mine for all students. I feel this competition has prepared our students for this vision.

My first Future City Team. These studetns worked hard and created a city that not only impressed the judges virtually, but also within the skit performance. They placed top 5 our very first year participating.

Future City Team being interviewed by the Huntsville news team for the nightly broadcast and covereage of the Future City Competition.

This was year 2 Future City Team

Year 3 we brought home two awards for student choice, best water purification system and I was awarded the educator award for bringing mentoring another school system and bringing them to the competition to compete.

During year 4 our school brought two teams to compete. The team featured above brought two awards back to the school.

These next two teams were the 4th year of Future City Competition at DA Smith. Team 1

Team 2

This team was Coppinville's first Future City Competition Team. I was brought on to the Coppinville Staff to bring programs like Science Fair and Future City to Enterprise. I am proud of the student above showing off his engineering idea of harvesting earthquake energy to provide power to their city. This invention proved valuable as the awarder discussed this invention as being a deciding factor in awarding us with this award.

At this competition we brought home two awards, one for "Best Use of Energy" for and "Best Water Filtration System."

Coppinville's Future City Team

Year 1

Our team accepting one of our awards.

Presentation of Coppinville's first Future City Team to the Board of Education and community stakeholders.

Giving the Board Memebers and Stakeholders background information on what the students had to accomplish and what they did at the competition.

One of the team members describing his invention to harvest earthquake energy and use it for powering the city.

Future City Lives On

In the second year of Future City at Coppinville, my mentee, Mr. Cody Irwin took over as Coordinator. I started our Robotics competition team and our meeting times were daily after school, so It was difficult for me to do both. I recommended Mr. Irwin for the position because we shared a similar passion for engineering and allowing students to learn through research and discovery.. I knew he would go into this program ensuring growth throughout the years to come. I assisted him a few times a week with the process, paperwork and refocusing students back on deadlines. Once he and his students finished and participated in the competition in Huntsville he was hooked. This group won an award for the “Most Sustainable water system.”

The Prizes Continue

The program is evolving and growing. We now have 3 teams and have incorperated Future City as a STEM Class.

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