Future City Competition

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St. Paul Interparochial School Eighth Grade Students worked on a long-term, cross-curricular project designing a city of the future and competed in the National Engineers Week Future City Competition. 

Students reseached and developed solutions to problems involving citizens' health and lifestyles, city climate and weather, building materials, transporation, air, water, and energy.  Futuristic cities were designed with clean transportation, alternate energy, clean water, clean air and healthy lifestyle solutions.  The students built computerized cities using SimCity 4 Deluxe, wrote essays and city narratives, built scale models using only recycled materials, and developed presentations for engineer judges.  Students competed in the NJ finals at Rutgers University. 

 

 

Students used paper savings strategies while conducting reasearch and writing the research papers, city narratives, and presentation scripts. Students and teachers used the comments feature in Microsoft Word to make revisions in their documents.  Students saved approximately 500 pieces of paper, ink, and energy from not using the printer.

 

 

Students shared their energy, water, air, transportation, and healthy lifestyle solutions with the rest of the student body through their presentations during the Science Fair.

 

 

 

 

 

St. Paul Interparochial School has placed in the top 10 in NJ since the inception of the NJ competition:  

2008:  5th Place

2009:  4th Place

2010:  6th Place

2011:  4th Place

2012:  3rd Place