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Nebraska Future City Competition is underway

The theme of this year’s Future City Competition is Waste Not, Want Not.

John Thomsen, ESU3 High Ability Learner Coordinator, says students in grades 6-8 who enter the competition will work in teams that include an educator and an engineer mentor.

They’ll research and present their solutions to future waste management problems.

Thomsen says students will focus on residences and small businesses by looking at various issues including trash collection, recycling, and energy efficiency. 

He says students will use SimCity software to address this problem.

"Future City provides resources by which students can study what existing problems are and then they are to forecast a city in the future, 50 years ahead, of how they would address that.  Therefore, the solutions that students present, may not exist now but the idea is to look at what the existing problem is, the existing research and then make a futuristic forecast of how to solve it.”

Thomsen says the Future City competition is part of e-week, which recognizes science, technology, engineering and math. 

On January 22nd, the Nebraska teams will present a model of a part of the city they’ve created in SimCity software, and make an oral presentation to a panel of engineer judges.