The Baden Academy Future City Team Competes at the Pgh Science Center and wins two awards.

Anya Martin, Wyatt Russell, Naomi Burton, Layne Burchett, and Sean McCombs did a fantastic job competing as the Baden Academy Future City competition team. They won two awards: Best Use of Ceramics and the Best Use of Nuclear Science! Listen to their presentation here. Find out more about the team on their website page https://bacsfuturecity.weebly.com/

The Baden Academy Future City Team was so proud to compete and thrilled to be recognized as the team with the Best Use of Ceramics and Best Use of Nuclear Science.

Find out more at their website http://bacsfuturecity.weebly.com

Future City starts with a question—how can we make the world a better place? To answer it, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future that showcase their solution to a citywide sustainability issue. The Baden Academy team always has the youngest team with our 6th graders.

Participants complete four deliverables: a 1,500-word city essay; a scale model built from recycled materials; a project plan, and a presentation to judges at Regional Competitions in January. Regional winners represent their region at the Finals in Washington, DC in February. After completing Future City, student participants are not only prepared to be citizens of today’s complex and technical world, but also poised to become the drivers of tomorrow.

Engineering and so much more

This flexible, cross-curricular educational program gives students an opportunity to do the things that engineers do—identify problems; brainstorm ideas; design solutions; test, retest and build; and share their results. This process is called the engineering design process. With this at its center, Future City is an engaging way to build students’ 21st century skills. Students participating in Future City:

• Apply math and science concepts to real-world issues
• Develop writing, public speaking, problem solving, and time management skills
• Research and propose solutions to engineering challenges
• Discover different types of engineering and explore careers options
• Learn how their communities work and become better citizens
• Develop strong time management and project management skills