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NC Future City Competition

Future City Competition

1/25/2025
When: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Where: McKimmon Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 
United States
Contact: Charlie Townsend

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What is Future City?

Middle School STEM Program

Future City is a hands-on cross-curricular educational program that brings STEM to life for students in grades 6 through 8.

Using the Engineering Design Process (EDP) and project management skills, students showcase their solutions to a citywide sustainability issue. This year’s challenge asks students build a floating city and provide two innovative examples of how your floating city works and keeps its citizens healthy and safe. Learn more!

How Does Future City Work?

Future City is an educational engineering experience and there are also awesome prizes that teams can win!

Throughout the fall, participants work in teams of at least three students, an educator, and volunteer mentor to bring their vision of their future city to life.

They will imagine what it’s like to walk down the main street of a city 100 years in the future. What do they see, hear, smell, and feel? From this starting point, they will design a futuristic city with innovative solutions to some of today’s most pressing sustainability issues.

As the middle school students create their cities, they will:

  • Use the engineering design process and project management steps to take on a large-scale project;

  • Apply their math and science knowledge to a real-world problem;

  • Strengthen their teamwork and problem-solving skills;

  • And more!

Created for middle schoolers in or out of the classroom, Future City combines the engineer design process (EDP)  with project management to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future.

Future City is a program of DiscoverE. DiscoverE is a nonprofit dedicated to providing global resources, programs, and connections between K-12 students and engineers and STEM professionals. We have a special focus on reaching girls, and under-represented and under-served students. DiscoverE is the backbone organization behind some of the earliest and most broadly adopted STEM and engineering programs available. They are free to all students and it is our intent to remain at no cost. DiscoverE is supported by generous donors including the Bechtel Corporation, Bentley Systems, Collins Aerospace, Exxon Mobil, NCEES, Northrop Grumman Foundation, the Overdeck Family Foundation, Project Management Institute, Shell Oil Company, TE Connectivity, and others.