National Engineers' Week Futurecity Competition™

Algonquin Middle School
333 NY Highway 351
Averill Park, NY 12018
518-674-7100
518-674-0671 (fax)

Staugaitis 2020

Staugaitis was designed near water as to increase availability to trade. When a city is on an island, it is difficult to access fresh water for domestic use. Therefore, we built Staugaitis on a coast. To raise land value, commercial and residential areas were located on open water.

Nate Wilson (m)
Jason Sector (m)
Shelley Forster (f)

Tony Wilson
Lockheed Martin

Lewiston-Porter Middle School
4061 Creek Road
Youngstown, NY 14174
716-754-8281
716-754-4950 (fax)

Tamaqua

Tamaqua is a multi-level city specifically designed to ensure a high quality of life for our residents. Our main goals were to establish efficient, non-polluting energy sources, provide adequate transportation, and institute a quality education. Our primary, environmentally friendly energy source is algae. Algae plants produce a sufficient amount of renewable energy for our community.

Urbis Aeris

In the year 2154, humanity faced a crisis. The world's population had topped 50 billion, and nuclear fallout made life precarious. With international pressure mounting, the United Nations funded the creation of Urbis Aeris. Located in Iceland, Urbis Aeris houses over 100,000 people inside a dome two miles wide. The dome lies 50 feet beneath a manmade lagoon, designed to shield the city from radiation.

Punash-Fna

Punash-Fna is a wonderful city to live and work in with plenty of utility systems. Our city gets its power from a clean and efficient fusion power plant. We have plentiful water systems in our city that our citizens can use as much as they want. We have efficient waste to energy incinerators to get rid of trash and produce electricity.

Sun City

The goal of the Sun City's planners and engineers was to design an energy efficient city of the future. Sun City is a safe, clean city with an excellent transportation system, fun attractions and high paying jobs. This sunny city is lush with trees, landscapes, and beautiful waterfront views for everyone to enjoy. Sun City has an amazing transportation system. You don't need a car to get around this city!

Aquarius

The year is 2999, and Aquarius has conquered the various problems arising from a city underwater in the Gulf of Mexico. Because high water pressure will kill humans, a large dome protects our 120,000 plus citizens. The sides of our dome are gill-like to draw in oxygen and energy from the water. The chemical luciferon provides light for our citizens. Luciferon imitates bioluminescent organisms such as fireflies.

Terra de Llama

Terra de Llama is unique because it is completely powered by clean and efficient microwave power. Our homes are entirely computerized and provide every convenience. Adjustments to heating or cooling systems, ventilation, lights, entertainment systems, or appliances, is all done by voice command on location or remotely. Lights are implanted in the perimeter of the room along the floors and ceilings.

Pallas Athena

Pallas Athena, named after the ancient Greek goddess of city, science, and education, features an assortment of appealing living conditions and qualities that attracts everyone to our city. Pallas Athena, in the year 2291, offers an energy efficient transportation system, quality health care, and a variety of wonderful educational opportunities.

EdgeWater

In the future, people will need a clean, safe, and economical city in which to live. One of the major points of Edgewater is the diversified power sources. The primary source is two fusion power plants with a microwave power plant system for backup. To assist in the energy needs of the city we have a waste-to-energy incinerator. It produces electricity by burning off the city's garbage.

Starburst

Starburst is the light in the sky when you look to the heavens. Starburst is a self contained, self-powered orbiting city. The excitement starts with theme park, stadium, gig-a-mall, and casino, as well as ten world-famous landmarks. The doctors there use the most advanced technology known to any species of this galaxy. They have recently come up with a cure for cancer and the common cold.

Lunar-Ranul

The working colony of Lunar-Ranul (pronounced renewal) has now been in existence for about 100 years. Lunar-Ranul continues to thrive because of unique conditions on the Moon that are proving profitable for Earth ventures. The LR Spaceport serves as a launching site for long distance space flight. With little gravity and no atmosphere, it is possible to achieve liftoff with 1/6 of the fuel compared to Earth.

Robust on Sitnalta

Robust is an underwater city located on the Atlantis massif, a flat non-tectonic mountaintop discovered 15 kilometers from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Robust was built with international sponsorship and houses people from all over the world including oceanographers and engineers. The main purpose in Robust is generating energy for an energy-impoverished world.

Vitality

Vitality, an earth-dwelling city in 2160, has advanced technology applied to every aspect of life. From the design of living spaces, to ample employment, Vitality is the perfect city. Vitality's engineers have redesigned the power sources of the year 2002 and enhanced them to generate the best low cost, environmentally safe, and reusable power.

Apricus

The name Apricus is a Latin word meaning "a sunny place." Each zone in our city contains a unique feature. For example, in much of our residential area, we have designed each block to include a pond and a park area. In addition to a purposeful design, Apricus maintains a self-sufficient system in terms of its power, water, and waste management.

Aquaticus

Aquaticus is a unique city incorporating several futuristic components. Aquaticus is located partly above and under water in the Mediterranean Sea. Using the strategy similar to that of oil platforms, we were able to place Aquaticus about seventy-five percent above water and twenty-five percent underwater. Aquaticus uses hydrogen fuel cells as its energy source so the main component of our city is water.

Packamaquady

Our city, Packamaquady, is a medium size city that is energy conservative. We use alternative energy sources, such as solar plants, windmills, tidal electric power and burning garbage. We burn garbage at a very high temperature so there is little pollution. We use solar panels on top of the roofs to get more energy and to the heat water.

Augustawind

Augustawind is powered by wind. The lucky inhabitants of Augustawind live near the Chinook River and the Mariah Ocean in townhouses, apartments, and single family homes. Their energy bills are incredibly low. Transportation for Augustawindians includes underground windways powered by a gust of wind, hot air balloons, and kite cars. No gasoline is used in the city.

Aquila

Welcome to Aquila, the city of the stars. Here you will find that our city is well equipped to meet the needs of a pioneering spirit. It's a beautiful city where the Universe is your back yard. Our city is completely self contained. We grow our own food, manufacture our own air, and produce our own energy. Our police stations, fire departments and hospitals more than meet the needs of our people.

Taino Yara

Taino Yara is an engineered movable, floating island city in the eastern Caribbean. The name means "good land" in the ancient language of the Caribbean. Taino Yara is located close to hydrothermal ocean vents to exploit power. It is the perfect place for high tech industries and tourism. The city features an excellent marine biology research center that directs aquaculture and hydrothermal research.

Mutombo

Mutombo, a city located in the semi-arid country of Namibia, was built to improve educational opportunities, health conditions, and economic development of this southwest African country . The city is named after the great Philadelphia basketball star, Dikembe Mutombo, who continues to donate money to improve conditions in Africa.

Emily Beaty (f)
Brianna Muller (f)
Brian Schoendorfer (m)

Fusiopia

Fusiopia represents the future of clean and safe power generation. Powered by non-polluting fusion reactors, Fusiopia is a center of high-tech jobs, low crime and unemployment, high education, and great healthcare. Fusiopia is independent of fossil fuels and is environmentally sound. Fusiopia is a city with balance. Open green areas are preserved through dense residential zoning that limits urban sprawl.

Triton

Become a modern-day pioneer when you move to the exotic island of Triton, located in the breath taking Caribbean. Our economy is based on mining, fishing, tourism, and high technology industries. We have efficient transportation systems. There are paved roads, subways, bus stops, an airport, and a seaport, so you will never have to worry about too much traffic in the city.

CPOE

Coldest Place On Earth. Extreme beauty . . international camaraderie . . oasis at the bottom of the world. Perched in the dry valleys of Antarctica, CPOE is a city of nations protected from the elements by an Innovative Thermo Pipe (ITP) Thermo-Dome and the Transantarctic Mountains.

Trandys Island

Your journey to Trandys Island is almost as exciting as the destination. Trandys Island features tourist subways that travel through the Great Barrier Reef, while commercial subways are hidden out of view. Lucky passengers view stunning scenery as they travel. There might even be a glimpse of orcas, dolphins, or giant squids! The subway system connects the submerged island to Sydney and Brisbane, Australia.

Project Poseidon

Project Poseidon is a futuristic floating city. Designed as a way to expand available land, it is a completely self-contained island. The city contains an ingenious fresh water system. Huge desalinization plants pull the salt out of the water found in the Pacific. This water is then funneled into a gigantic fresh water river reservoir, which in turn provides water to the city.