Future City Competition

Future City Competition 2021

This year’s Future City Competition theme is “Living on the Moon.” To adapt to the pandemic, teams will be allowed to work remotely and competitions will be virtual. Teams will make a video presentation of their cities, and their models will be presented in a slideshow format. There will be a live Q&A for the teams to answer questions about their models and presentations.

Future City Competition 2020 - Regional Finals in Chicago

This year's theme is "Clean Water – Tap Into Tomorrow"

Regional competition was held in Chicago on Saturday, January 18, 2020. Visit Futurecity Chicago for more information.

Future City Competition 2019 - Regional Finals in Chicago

This year's theme is "Powering Our Future!"

Regional competition was held in Chicago on Saturday, January 19, 2019. Visit futurecity.org for more information.

Future City Competition 2018 - Regional Finals in Chicago

Regional competition was held in Chicago on January 20, 2018. A total of 16 schools made it to the regional competition! ISPE sponsors a Special Award and offers volunteer member judges for the event. Each team that won a Special Award receives the following: individual acrylic plaques for the three presenting students, $25 Amazon Gift Card for the three presenting students, and one larger plaque for the school to display.

Congratulations to the winners of the ISPE Chicago Chapter-sponsored Special Award of Great Engineering Feats!

The winning team was from the Wood Dale Junior High School

City name: Forever Young

Students and ISPE Volunteer Judges next to "Forever Young"

Students Presenting Their City

Special Aware Plaque

Congratulations to our winners, and all participants!

Additional Regional information is available at: futurecity.org/illinois-chicago

Future City Competition 2017 - Regional Finals in Chicago

ISPE Chicago Chapter supported the Regional Finals and the 25th Anniversary of Future City Competition on Saturday, January 7. Future Cities is a national, project-based learning program where middle school students work with an educator and STEM mentor to imagine, research, design and build cities of the future. ISPE Chicago Chapter supported this event by providing volunteer judges and a "Special Award" based upon "Great Engineering Feats."

Congratulations to the recipient of the ISPE Chicago-sponsored Special Award, St. Clair Junior High School's city Beanntan Mora! Here are some photos of the event and the winning city. (Click on the image for a larger version.)

For more information about the Future City Competition, visit http://futurecity.org

Special Award judges

Special Award Judges

ISPE Chicago Chapter volunteer judges in a discussion with student competitors

event photo

Event space. 26 cities featured!

Special Award Winner city, St. Clair Junior High School's Beanntan Mora
Special Award Winner city, St. Clair Junior High School's Beanntan Mora
Special Award Winner city, St. Clair Junior High School's Beanntan Mora

Special Award Winner city, St. Clair Junior High School's Beanntan Mora

Thank you, Bob Johnson, for the photos!

2016

ISPE sponsored a special award at the Chicago Future City Competition.

For photos from this spectacular event, follow this link: Future City Competition Photos.