St. Mary’s School wins Future Cities Competition
By LAURA RUMSCHIK
Published: January 28, 2010
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When most middle school students think about the future, thoughts focus on media technology, robotic science, relationships with friends and career paths. Students in the Future Cities Competition learned to consider a wider scope of ideas over a longer range of time and used their imaginations to propose solutions to potential problems of the future.
This year’s focus was “Providing an Affordable Living Space for People Who Have Lost Their Home Due to a Disaster or Financial Emergency.”
Seventh-and eighth-graders from 16 area schools worked with teachers and engineers to design and build their ideas of a future city that addressed this issue. Requirements included an essay, a city model made using the SimCity 4 Deluxe software, and a tabletop 3D-scaled model made out of recycled materials for display at the event. These were presented to engineer judges at the regional competition Saturday at Mount St. Mary Academy in Kenmore.