Future City Competition

Future City National Competition Link

The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future.  Students are challenged to design and build a city of the future using the SimCity software.  The city must display residential, commercial and industrial areas, power plants, transportation systems, communication systems, etc.  Students will address issues such as pollution, traffic density, taxes and budgets while creating their city.

Any school interested in participating in the Future City Competition should contact Catherine Flarity.

2007 Competition

The LES Baton Rouge Chapter is proud to announce that St. Thomas More of Baton Rouge, winner of the Louisiana Statewide Competition, also won the National Championship.  Their future city "Mwinda" is a new city in an old land.  The mission of Mwinda is to ensure opportunity for a good life by providing power, housing, water, food, and transportation.  .

Left to right: Jake Bowers, teacher Shirley Newman, Emily Ponti,

engineer mentor Guy Macarios, Krisha Sherburne

2006 Competition

The LES Baton Rouge Chapter is proud to announce that St. Thomas More of Baton Rouge, winner of the Louisiana Statewide Competition, placed 5th at the National Competition in Washington D.C.  They also were awarded the Best Model award.

Pictured left to right:  Tony Arikol, P.E. (Engineer Sponsor), Alison Adams,

Melanie Eddington, Katherine Fredieu, and Shirley Newman (teacher)

2005 Competition

The LES Baton Rouge Chapter is proud to announce that St. Thomas More of Baton Rouge, winner of the Louisiana Statewide Competition, also won the National Championship.  Their future city "L''Etoile Directice" is an artificial barrier island of the coast of Louisiana.

Pictured left to right:  Shirley Newman, teacher, students Lauren Arikol,

Kathleen O'Hara, Lisa Lynch, Jacques "Jack" Lasseigne, engineer mentor