From the national committee…
It is my pleasure to share with you an exciting webcast on February 23rd from 2:00-3:00pm EST – eWeek themed “Introducing Girls to Engineering”, where a panel of women engineering professionals will respond to moderator and live audience questions. The meeting Invitation & RSVP can be accessed/shared here: http://bit.ly/GirlsInEng12
Congratulations to the 2011-2012 Southern Nevada Region Future City Competition winners!
First Place – Triland from Hyde Park Middle School
Our first place team wins a trip to Washington D.C. in February to compete in the national competition.
Second Place – Falcon from Alexander Dawson
Third Place – Concordia from Del Webb Middle School
Fourth Place – Star City from Las Vegas Day School
Fifth Place – Firestone from Mannion Middle School
Other Awards
Best Computer City Design – Concordia from Del Webb Middle School
Best Essay – Triland from Hyde Park Middle School
Best Physical Model – Firestone from Mannion Middle School
Best Presentation – Triland from Hyde Park Middle School
Congratulations to all the participants and we hope to see you back next year.
From the national committee…
Title: Future City Mentors Meeting “Coaching Teams to Deliver Outstanding Presentations”When: Wednesday January 11th, 11:00 am EST/10:00 am CSTInvite Sign up & Calendar Details: http://anyvite.com/khneagehfe*You may also be interested in visiting the Mentors Community Wiki – Presentation Tips for video examples to share with your teams.
Less than three weeks remain until the competition.Here is your rundown for the remaining deliverables.
Also I restyled the website. Still working on a few things here and there though. If you see any issues with the website, email me!
A study funded by Intel has found that just exposing teenagers to engineering will double their interest in becoming an engineer.
Any facts about engineering, including what engineers actually do and, specifically, how much money they earn, motivate more than half of teens to say they are more likely to consider engineering as a career. Programs such as robotics and science competitions offer teens the real-world, hands-on experience with engineering that improves the likelihood that they will get hooked on the subject and pursue it in college.
The National Future City Competition is having another mentor seminar, this time covering building the physical model. It takes place Thursday, December 1 from 10-11A PT. More details here.
This web meeting will cover the mentors guide to helping your Future City Competition (http://www.futurecity.org) team build an outstanding and visually striking physical model of their future city. The session will be lead by guest speaker Karen Armfield, P.E., Associate Vice President of AECOM Transportation and Future City Regional Coordinator, with Bentley System’s Be Mentors Community Leader, Martin Pflanz, P.E. as moderator.
To find out more about the Be Mentors program, go to www.bentley.com/BeMentors
At the start of the meeting click here
Suggesting testing your system 15 min prior HERE
Just a reminder its almost time to turn in SimCity models.Here is how to do it!
Update: The sale ended early, it is now over.
Attention teachers and students – right now you can get a digital copy of SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition for Windows from STEAM for only $5. This is the same version of the software we use in the competition. You will need to create an account with STEAM and a credit card, debit card or PayPal to purchase the software online. Purchase soon as the sale wont last long. You will need to have an active internet connection to download and install the game, as well as when you want to play the game (no internet connection, no playing the game). This digital copy of the game will last forever (or as long as “forever” is on the internet).
The sale ends November 18 at 9PM PT.
Be aware that you can only run one copy of the game at a time – if you log in to your STEAM account at one computer it will log you out of any other computers that are logged in. If you want to buy multiple copies of the game you will need multiple email accounts.
If you want to make multiple email accounts, may I suggest Google’s GMail service? Create a single account, like firstname.lastname@gmail.com, and then use “plus addressing” to turn it into multiple accounts – e.g. firstname.lastname+1@gmail.com, firstname.lastname+2@gmail.com, etc will all go to your inbox but count as multiple email addresses.
Submitting your SimCity Virtual Benchmark Form is the 2nd part of submitting your students’ SimCity work.
Here are the steps to submit the form…