Are you looking for an immensely rewarding experience that will have a positive impact on the future of young people choosing to pursue engineering, and help 6th/7th/8th grade students prepare for the real world?
In September, middle school students began work on the Future City Competition, working with mentors, as described in this previous blog post. It is a national program sponsored each year by the National Engineers Week Committee. The Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) is the coordinator for the Michigan Regional Competition. The Future City Competition provides students with an opportunity to use their math, science, and computer skills on a project that relates to their lives. It is a team-based program consisting of students, a teacher, and an engineer mentor. The team is challenged to design a fully-functioning city located in a time and place in the future, and to have fun learning in the process. Each team creates a city displaying residential, commerical, and industrial areas, power plants, transportation systems, and communication systems. Students also address important issues such as pollution, traffic density, taxes, and budgets.
ESD is looking for engineers to act as judges for the Michigan Regional Future City Competition, which will be held on January 28, 2013, at the Suburban Collection Showplace (formerly Rock Financial Showplace) in Novi, Michigan. The training for the judges will take place starting at 7:30 AM that morning, and the actual judging is from 9:00-11:00 AM. At that time, the schools will display their model cities and three representatives from each team will give a 5-7 minute presentation to a panel of judges. The judges then ask the student teams questions. The winning team, including the engineer mentor, will attend the national competition in Washington, DC, during National Engineers Weeek in February.
To sign up to be a judge, please fill out this pdf form and email it to Leslie Smith lsmith@esd.org and Jessica Engwis jlengwis@gmail.com .
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