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.
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Creating future engineers for Alabama
Alabama needs engineers and scientiests to assure our continued leadership in
technology. The last generation took us to the moon and back. Where will our
future generations take us?
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ASA awarded the
Huntsville City School Academy of Science and Foreign Language
$300 for the concept city "Solaris." ASA Judges Al Orilion and Morton Archibald
selected Team Solaris as the best of 20 finalists from across Alabama in use of
renewable energy in their concept of a future city.
"I represent a bunch of hogs," said Morton in presenting the award. "Our generation
has been using energy like there is no tomorrow, let alone like this generation is
going to need any. We are living in desperate times, and it will be up to you (the
students participating in the Future Cities competition) to bail of us out of the
mess we have created. From what I have seen here today, there is hope for a bright
future."
The team consisted of students Kris Yamada, Sherry Nolet, and Eugina Young developed
the plans and the model for the City of Solaris. ASFL teacher Angela Trayor provided
the team guidance under the guidance of Huntsville engineer Erica Jones.
Watch for more details soon.
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