SOUTHFIELD ? More than 1,200 students, their teachers and engineering mentors will compete on Jan. 22 at the Rock Financial Showplace in the Michigan Regional Future City Competition Project. The winner will participate in the national competition in Washington DC.
Some examples of the Future Cities envisioned in the Michigan regional competition include:
A city that operates on tidal turbines with smart houses to thwart off typhoons;
A new New York City with indestructible bridges and dome shaped covers to eliminate pollution;
A self-sustaining city on Mars for 50,000 of earth?s inhabitants.;
And Millennium City, formerly known as the City of Detroit, but in the year 2160.
The competition is sponsored and organized by The Engineering Society of Detroit.
?Not only do we have a record number of schools participating this year, but the projects are all very unique and creative,? said Ron Smith, ESD?s Director of Education and Community Outreach. ?The students spent hundreds of hours perfecting their projects down to the last detail. It?s going to be a painstaking task for the judges to decide on a winner; the students have definitely exceeded our expectations.?
The Future City Competition challenges students to design a city of the future – and have fun doing it. This program was designed to promote technological literacy and engineering to seventh and eighth grade students. This year students were challenged to design cities using the topic, ?Keeping Our City’s Infrastructure Healthy: Using Nanotechnology to Monitor City Structures and Systems.?
Students began working on their projects in September. Funding for the competition was provided by the Skillman Foundation, the Ford Motor Company Fund and the DTE Energy Foundation, as well as by numerous companies and individuals.
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