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What Is Future City? Future City starts with a question ﹣ how can we make the world a better place?To answer it,middle school students imagine and build future city models.It is an educational engineering experience and there are also big prizes to win! This year's challenge asks students to design a floating city and tell how the floating city works and keeps its people healthy and safe. | |||||||||||||||
Why Future City? This program allows students to do what engineers do.Students build a future city model in creative ways and solve some of today's most popular problems. Future City Works on its Promise of Building 21st Century Skills. Reported Percentage(%) of improvement in student skills
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We Are Growing This program has attracted more than 60,000 students from the US,Canada,and Nigeria,as they spend four months(September﹣December) | |||||||||||||||
How Does Future City Work? In the game,contestants work in teams of at least three students,a teacher They will imagine what it's like to walk down the main street of a city in 100 years in the future.What do they see,hear,smell As the middle school students create their cities,they will: Use their math and science knowledge to solve a real﹣world problem; Improve their teamwork and problem﹣solving skills. |