Future Cities Club

TThe Future Cities Club is part of a national program sponsored by the engineering community to promote technological literacy and engineering for seventh grade students.  The program fosters an interest in math, science, geography, and engineering through hands-on, real world applications.  The program is for groups of four students per team and runs from late September to mid-January and is conducted in four phases:

• Phase I – computer simulation - design a future city using the SIMCity4 software,
• Phase II – draft a 300-500 word abstract on their city and a 1,000-word essay focused on a predetermined topic that is changed from one year to the next,
• Phase III – using recycled and other materials, build a scale model of a portion of their SIM CITY created during phase I, and,
• Phase IV – travel to Boise and give a 5-7 minute formal presentation to two panels of judges.

Awards and Recognitions:

2009-2010 – Team Synda (Lily Alexander, Michelle Falcon, Emma McCormick, and Jenna Sanborn, Mr. Tim McCormick, engineer mentor and Mrs. Coughenour, advisor).  They earned the Multidisciplinary Solutions Special Award sponsored by the University of Idaho.

2010-2011 – Team San Majavin (Jake Alderink, Vincent Lyon, and Matthew Robinson.  Mr. Alderink, engineer/mentor and Mrs. Coughenour, advisory).

Karen Coughenour
kcoughenour @cdacharter.org