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FUTURE CITY COMPETITION - CALL FOR JUDGES

I hope you will be able to join the North Texas Regional of Future City for another successful competition.  Last year we fielded nearly 70 teams, with even more teams expected this year.  With your assistance, we continue to expand the program to bring engineering, math, and science to more students. If you have never judged, I encourage you to join us to judge!

New for last year, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History honored Future City and the winning students by presenting an exhibit of models from the North Texas Competition.  We are working on repeating the exhibit again this season.  Look for the Future City exhibit during National Engineering Week - 2012.

NEW THIS YEAR - Here in the North Texas Region, we have continued to expanded thewww.dfwfuturecity.org web site.  By your request, you will be able to reactivate your account from last year and use your existing username and password.  To reactivate your account, go to the judge's login page and click the Reactivate link on the right side of the page.  You will be asked for your email address (this one) for verification.  Use the following link to the login page:https://www.dfwfuturecity.org/NorthTX/Judging

In addition to the ability to reactivate your accounts, we have made several visual changes to the judges page, in an effort to make the judging process easier for you.

The Future City Competition - sponsored by National Engineers Week - is designed to inspire 6-7-8th grade students about engineering by challenging them to solve the real-world problems associated with building a livable city of the future.  Hundreds of North Texas students, from more than 30 schools, have been working hard since October on their city concepts.

The students work in teams to first realize their city with a computer simulation, then as a physical scale model.  Students must also research and write a paper on an engineering topic and publicly present their work to a panel of judges.

I would like to invite you to serve as a North Texas Region Future City Competition Judge.  There are opportunities to fit any schedule, from on-site judging and interaction with the students, to working at your convenience on your computer.  You may serve in any of the following ways:

1. Computer City Design - Judging the computer-simulated Future City design and layout.  City planning/development experience desired, but not required.  SimCity4 software and scoring templates will be provided. Approximate time commitment:  10 hours, Dec. 1 - 30, at your computer.

2. Essay and Narrative - Judging essays on materials of the future city design (1000 words), as well as a narrative of the future city (500 words.  Scoring templates will be provided.  Approximate time commitment:  10 hours, Dec 15 - Jan 12, at your computer.

3. Models and Presentations - Small panels of judges evaluate the teams' presentation of their 3-D city models looking for teamwork, creativity, workmanship, transportation, moving part components and use of recycled materials.  Approximate time commitment:  6 hours, Jan 22, Univ of Texas, Arlington.

4. Special Awards –  Don’t forget to “sign-up” to judge on-line however.  It will help us with name tags and sending you information about the event! For those of you who have never judged I invite you to join us!  Approximate time commitment:  6 hours, Jan 22, Univ of Texas, Arlington.

If you would like additional information regarding the local DFW competition, please visithttp://www.dfwfuturecity.org. For information regarding the competition at the national level, please visit http://www.futurecity.org. If you are interested in participating in this year's competition, please use the following link to enroll:https://www.dfwfuturecity.org/NorthTX/JudgeBin/Judge/Enroll

Thank you for your support and the contribution of your time and effort to the National Engineers Week Future City Competition.

Cissy Sylo

Future City Special Awards Coordinator

[email protected]

972-395-0729