The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future.

This will be accomplished by:

• Fostering engineering skills, such as teamwork, communication and problem solving skills;
• Providing interaction among students, teachers, and engineer mentors;
• Informing the community about the multi-disciplines within the engineering profession;
• Inspiring students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering.

St. Paul of the Cross sent two teams to the regional competition at UIC on Saturday, January 27. The teams had previously designed a future city on the computer program, Sim City, and written an Abstract and an essay on Fuel Cells. These two components were judged separately. The competition on Saturday, January 27 was for the model made of recycled materials. The two models were named after their computer modeled cities: Carpe Diem and Boomington. Boomington won a special award for their zoning. Congratulations to both teams for all their hard work

2007-2008 Future City Competition Team Wins Numerous Awards!

Click here to be directed to a video of the team filming a cable television program.