The Future City Competition is a free, national, project-based learning experience where 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students make their dreams a reality as they imagine, design, and build cities of the future. Students use science, technology, engineering, and math to tackle real life issues affecting people today while discovering new talents, confidence, and insights. This year’s Future City Theme: A Waste-Free Future! Teams utilized the three principles of a circular economy to design a futuristic, waste-free city.
Hubble Homes employees Taylor and Austin provided mentoring time and resources to all of the Heritage Middle School teams, and then continued to mentor the top three teams selected to represent their school at the Regional Competition. After months of work and collaboration, the three Heritage Middle School teams took home 7 Special Awards including, Best Project Plan, Best City Model and Best Presentation. Heritage Middle School team Triton won first place and along with their teachers and mentors, will represent Idaho at the National Future City Competition later this year.
Hubble Homes was immensely proud to work with these students, they were all extremely hard working and showed incredible discipline and attention to each aspect of the Competition. They asked great questions, implemented feedback, and utilized problem solving skills to overcome challenges. A special thank you to the Heritage Middle School Educators and all of the Future City Sponsors.
As stated on their website, the Future City Competition not only engages more than 45,000 middle school students each year throughout the United States and abroad but the program also increases students motivation and excitement about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
You can learn more about the Idaho Regional competition at http://futurecity.org/idaho .
