Overview

The Future City Competition is a national program sponsored by the engineering community to promote technological literacy and engineering to middle school students. It is in its 16th year of existence. This is the 10th year the Regional Competition has been held in the State of Washington and the 7th year that it has been hosted by the Seattle Section IEEE in Seattle. The local Regional Competition is organized and managed by a local steering committee and supported financially by local sponsors.

The program fosters an interest in math, science, and engineering through hands-on, real world applications. The competition is open to all public, private, home, and parochial schools. The Regional Finals of the Future City Competition will be held in Seattle Washington at the Seattle Center on Saturday, January 19, 2008. The National Finals of the Future City Competition are a featured event during National Engineers Week, with students from across the country competing in Washington, D.C. The winning team from Washington State Regional Competition will advance to the national competition in Washington, D.C.

The Challenge: Design and Build a Future City

Students design a future city using SimCity 3000 competition software (students must be from the same school). Student teams will design and build a city of the future. The city must display residential, commercial and industrial areas, power plants, roads, and power distribution networks. The city must be energy efficient, supplying enough energy for its residents. Other considerations are pollutions levels, traffic density and cost efficiency.

The solution includes developing a project plan, a logical model of the city using SimCity 3000 software, a team-made physical scale model, an essay, an abstract, and a verbal presentation.

Phase I: Computer City Design

Phase II: Build Model

Phase III: Essay

Phase IV: Verbal Presentation