Welcome to the Idaho Region of the Future City!
This web page contains information about the Idaho Regional Competition for interested students, teachers, parents and volunteers.
About Future City Future City™Competition is in it’s 20th year in Idaho, is a free educational program for sixth, seventh and eighth-grade students run entirely by volunteers throughout the state. It is a national program that fosters an interest in math, science and engineering through hands-on, real world applications.
The Future City Program combines an engineering challenge with a “hands-on” application as students present their vision of a city of the future by working in teams along with their teacher and a volunteer engineer mentor. Teams of students (minimum of three per team) will perform the following tasks:
Students research and write an essay on a given engineering topic. The 2023-2024 theme is Electrify Your Future! The challenge: Design a 100% electrically powered city with energy generated from sources that keep your citizens and the environment healthy and safe. The students build a model of a portion of their city to scale using recycled materials. Models may be a single large model OR multiple model segments.
Teams will then give an up to 7-minute presentation about their city.
In a City Q&A teams will have a 10-minute question-and-answer session with judges from the engineering, technical, and city design fields. Sessions will be conducted live in person.
Teams complete a project plan to help them plan and organize their project.
The preparation starts in August-October. Regional competitions are in January.