Congratulations Team Ochrona!!
First Place at the 2019 Regional Future City Engineering Competition!!
On to
Washington, DC,
for
National Finals!!!
Congratulations to all of our 2018-19 Future City Engineering Teams!
Our five West Ridge Middle School teams did a GREAT job this weekend at the Future City Engineering competition at UT-Arlington on Saturday, January 26!!! This year's challenge, "Powering Our Future," involved solving the problem of power grid resiliency in the face of natural disasters. Students designed a virtual city, wrote an essay, created a 3-D model of their city, and developed a 7 minute presentation to share in front of a panel of engineers.
Every single one of the five WRMS teams participating in the 2019 competition won an award! Please congratulate the following students:
Team Ochrona - First Place Overall; plus People's Choice for Best Model, plus Best Use of the "Powering our Future" Theme.
Charlie Kley
Connor Guess
Orion Maher
Nick Massaed
Erik Seghers
Katelyn Yu
Team Electropia: "Best Residential Zone"
Natale Kozlowski
Penelope Tupou-Lisle
Hannah Hollenbeck
Anika Gullapalli
Catherine Tu
Kenna O
Emma Wang
Team Evergreen: The "Riskonater Award"
Esin Serbest
David Li
Anay Patel
Alp Serbest
Aneesh Kondagunturi
Romeer Pillay
Team Invinciville: "Best Use of Power Diversity Employing Nuclear"
Andy Hou
Mrinali Ganta
Ruiqi Li
Andrew Han
Ella Jiang
Ava Bush
Olivia Estioko
Parker Seeley
Team Vigoropolis: "Most Innovative Use of Construction Materials and Techniques"
Isabela Riggs
Sol Segura
Eavan Amador
Zoe Greene
Nina Corso
Anabelle Merlick
ABOUT FUTURE CITY ENGINEERING:
Do you love to play Sim City?
Do you enjoy building scale models with recycled materials?
Do you think about the future of the planet?
Compete in Future City Engineering, and design a city of the future!!
The competition has several components:
Play Sim City!
Write an essay and narrative!
Build a scale model of your city!
Present your ideas to a panel of judges at Regional Competition!
At least three students are needed to form a team, and you'll need an engineer mentor.
See below for more information about upcoming informational meetings. Check the following website for more information about the Future City Engineering program: www.futurecity.org
Here is the challenge for 2018-19
Powering Our Future Overview
Natural disasters—such as earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes—can pose serious threats to cities. While these events rarely last longer than a day or two, the damage can severely disrupt people’s daily lives, especially for exposed and vulnerable populations, and dramatically worsen the rebuilding process.
Examples of this are the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011 and Hurricane Maria’s direct hit on Puerto Rico in 2017. Japan lost key sources of electricity, requiring rolling blackouts to millions of businesses and homes for months, which made manufacturing and home living very difficult. Puerto Rico had 80% of its power lines wiped out with a complete loss of the electrical grid—leaving small generators as the only way to power everything, including hospitals, airports, police stations, and cell phone towers.
Today’s engineers, architects, and city leaders face the critical task of creating resilient cities. A resilient city is one that can adapt to challenges. It has connected systems and infrastructure in place that limit damage and help the city recover quickly. Physical systems such as infrastructure and housing are built to withstand high winds or earthquakes, information systems such as zoning data and maps are designed to support relief efforts, and institutions such as city management or emergency response are developed to ensure the quickest possible recovery. A resilient city ensures its residents are safe and healthy, their communities are stable and cared for, and the economy of the city is strong and durable.
The students’ challenge:
Design a resilient power grid for your future city that can withstand and quickly recover from the impacts of a natural disaster.
The Regional competition will be held at UT Arlington on January 26, 2019
The Future City Engineering sign-up form can be found here
FUTURE CITY ENGINEERING
FUTURE CITY ENGINEERING
There will be a Future City Engineering Info meeting on Monday, September 24, 2018, at 6 PM in the Eanes ISD Board Room (in the Admin Bldg at 601 Campcraft Rd) for all parents interested in hearing about this awesome activity for their middle school students this year!
Interested students will meet on Monday, September 24, in room 224 during Wildcat Time, to hear about the program.
Congratulations to Team Nomullopolis for placing second in the 2016 Finals Round in the Houston Regional Competition against some very tough competition!!! Team members include: Abhinav Rachakonda, Arohi Majmudar, Felix Chen, Ruhi Rachakonda, Alton Shen, Radhika Gautam, Rohan Gudipally.
Congratulations to Team Beirut for winning the 2016 National Land Surveying Award for outstanding knowledge about this topic. This award comes with a $100 cash prize for the school. Team members include: Connor Bowerman, Ethan Harrell, Andrew Lee, Graham Ragland, Gabby Goldstein, Thomas Goldstein, Arielle Lifton-Jochnowitz, Jack Smithson, Trevor Erickson, Sadie Dusek, Nico Edwards, George Kyle
CONGRATULATIONS, WRMS TEAM AQUATOPOLIS!!!!!
Team Aquatopolis competed at the Future City Engineering National Finals from February 13-18, in Washington, DC. They placed 2nd in the nation overall, and brought home trophies for First Place in City Model Design, and a national award for Most Sustainable Buildings! This is the highest placement ever for a Texas team! We're proud of you for all of your hard work and dedication to this project!!! Way to go!!!!!
Congratulations to all of our 2014-15 Future City Engineering Teams!
Our West Ridge Middle School teams did a GREAT job this weekend at the Future City Engineering competition at Texas State University on Saturday, January 17!!! This year's challenge involved solving the problem of urban agriculture. Students designed a virtual city, wrote two essays, created a 3-D model of their city, and developed a 7 minute presentation to share in front of a panel of engineers.
Please congratulate the following students:
Team Orleans - Best Virtual City
Connor Bowerman, Ethan Harrell, Gabrielle Goldstein, Graham Ragland, Niko Edwards, Brian Jessich, Ian McConachie, Sadie Dusek
Team Agropolis - Most Futuristic City; Most Sustainable Food Source
Abhinav Rachakonda, Felix Chen, Alton Shen, Rohan Gudipally, Eric Quan
Team Port-au-Prince - Best Model; Best Presentation
Karina Kumar, Trevor Erickson, Kate Denton, Ellie Cohen, Emma Tyler, Teresa Luo
Team Aquatopolis - Best Essay; First Place Regional Winner! This team will now advance to Nationals in Washington, DC, next month to compete against the top teams from across the nation!
Dillon Samra, Everest Maher, Mikaela Sherry, Amanda Chen, Anish Roy, Hunter Samra, Raunakk Chandhoke, Kyle Beasley
Special thanks to our engineer mentors who met with the student teams each week:
Dan Harrell, Ramana Rachakonda, Fraya Cohen, and Nick Samra
Do you love to play Sim City?
Do you enjoy building scale models with recycled materials?
Do you think about the future of the planet?
Compete in Future City Engineering, and design a city of the future!!
The competition has several components:
Play Sim City!
Write an essay and narrative!
Build a scale model of your city!
Present your ideas to a panel of judges at Regional Competition!
At least three students are needed to form a team, and you'll need an engineer mentor. Click here for the Future City Engineering student sign-up form.
Stay tuned for more information about upcoming informational meetings on our campus. Check the following website for more information about the Future City Engineering program: www.futurecity.org
Here are the due dates for Future City Engineering teams:
November 26, 2014 : SimCity Design Due (Virtual City)
Team names must be the city name and must be the simulation city name. Please bring the file on a flash drive to Mrs. Reese in Room 224.
December 5, 2014: First Late Date for SimCity Files
SimCity Files Received by this date will have
5 points deducted
December 12, 2014: Essay and Narrative Due
Please bring the essay and narrative files on a flash drive to Mrs. Reese in room 224
December 17, 2014: Last Date for SimCity Files
SimCity Files received by this date will have
10 points deducted.
January 7, 2015: Only Late day for Essay and Narrative Files
Files received by this date will have 5 pts deducted
January 17, 2015: Central Texas Regional Competition
Texas State University at San Marcos
Be Sure you have: Model with ID Tag, Completed Signed Expense Form, Completed Signed Honor Statement
February 13-18, 2015: National Finals in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations to Team Aquatopolis for winning the Regional Future City Event!