Future City

For the fifth consecutive year, M·E Companies will serve as the local host for the National Engineers Week Future City Competition - Ohio Region. The competition invites teams of 7th and 8th graders to create a city of the future using SimCity™ software, creating a map, and building a 3-D model of it. Students also write an abstract describing their city and an essay pertaining to the year's topic. Teams are judged on their oral presentation about the city, computer design and map, model, essay and abstract. Now in its second decade, the National Engineers Week Future City Competition reaches more than 30,000 students in 1,100 schools nationwide.

The 2008 competition's challenge: Keeping Our Future City's Infrastructure Healthy: Using Nanotechnology to Monitor City Structures and Systems. The Ohio Region competition will be held Saturday, January 19, 2008 at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus. The first place teams in the regional competitions will travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the national finals during the 16th Annual National Engineers Week Future City Competition, February 16-21, 2008.

Registration Deadline: October 15, 2007.

Available again this year: Mini Grant available for Ohio Region lower-income schools!!!

For more information, see Future City Ohio.