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2015-2016 North Texas Region Future City Competition

“Waste Not, Want Not”

Come Volunteer, and/or Sponsor the Competition

6, 7 & 8^th Grade Students Designing Solid Waste Management Systems of the Future! 

Over the years, cities and towns have managed their ever-expanding piles of trash in a variety of ways, including dumping it into landfills, burning it in incinerators, or shipping it off in trucks and barges. Such waste management systems contribute to air and water pollution and can be expensive and energy intensive. Today, engineers around the world are focused on the four R’s of waste management (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot), in an effort to deal with solid waste not as trash but as a resource.

With new solutions to waste management critical to the very survival of urban environments globally, the 2015-2016 North Texas Future City® Competition, needs your help! The Future City Competition is a national, project-based learning experience where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future.

This year’s theme, Waste Not, Want Not, encourages students to design waste management systems for residential use and small businesses by looking at issues such as collection, separation, processing, recycling, health and safety, energy efficiency, environmental impact and cost. Students learn how today’s engineers and city planners deal with citywide sustainability issues like solid waste management. They research cutting edge technologies and imagine and design a plausible and futuristic solution that can exist for generations.

Working in a team with an educator and engineer mentor, students present their waste management solutions and vision of their future city in a virtual city design (using SimCity™ software); a 1,500 word city description; a scale model of their city (built with recycled materials); and in a short presentation to at the Regional Presentation at UTA on Jan. 23, 2016. The North Texas Regional Winner will compete at the National Finals in Washington, DC in February for a chance for the grand prize of $100,000.  Our Regional Winner has been VERY close the next several years to winning the grand prize! 

For More Information the North Texas Future Cities Competition:

https://www.dfwfuturecity.org/

To Volunteer or Judge the Event

https://www.dfwfuturecity.org/part_vols.html

Or contact Cissy Sylo, Future Cities Chair, [email protected] or 214-717-3279. Looking forward to seeing you all there and our team winning nationals this year!