Future City Research

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

Students reseach and develop solutions to problems involving citizens' health and lifestyles, city climate and weather, building materials, transporation, air, water, and energy.  The project consists of a 1,000 word essay on a current event theme, a 500 word city narrative describing the unique attributes of the city, a computer model using Sim City 4, a physical model using recycled material, and a presentation at Rutgers University in January.

The theme for the 2012-2013 Compeition is Rethink Runoff: Design clean solutions to manage stormwater pollution

Students started by researching stormwater runoff problems and solutions locally and all over the world.