Posted January 18, 2017

 

 

Event Name
Philadelphia Regional Future City Competition

Event Location
Archbishop Carroll High School, 211 Matson Ford Road, Radnor, PA

Start Date and Time:
January 21, 2017, 8:30 AM

End Date and Time
January 21, 2017, 5:00 PM

Event Description
This Saturday, January 21, 2017, will be the 21st annual Philadelphia
Regional Future City Competition which will be held from 8:30 to 5PM
at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor, PA. This event features
students demonstrating what they’ve learned about Science Technology
Engineering and Math (STEM) over the past few months of research. The
students have developed solutions to real-world issues, and utilized
creativity to design a city of the future. The event on Saturday
features hundreds of talented students, many from local Catholic
schools, giving presentations to practicing engineers and the public.

The mission of the Future City Competition (
http://www.futurecityphilly.org/ ) is to provide a fun and exciting
educational engineering program for middle school students that
combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a “hands-on”
application to present their vision of a city of the future. It is a
501.c.3 educational outreach program of the National Engineers’ Week
and DiscoverE (http://www.discovere.org/ ). We are one of 39 regional
programs conducted throughout the country with the goal to introduce
middle school students to the engineering profession.

The competition draws approximately 50 schools in Philadelphia and
surrounding counties. Students from middle schools and after-school
programs in the region form teams consisting of 6th, 7th, and 8th
grade students who work with a teacher and an engineer mentor from
September to January. The winner of the event moves on to the national
finals, where the winner gets to meet the president of the United
States and get a trip to Space Camp.

Ticket URL (optional)
http://futurecityphilly.org/