The Future City Competition is a national competition in the United States that focuses on improving student's math, engineering, and science skills. It contains two levels: individual state and regional competitions and the National Finals for the winners of these previous contests. The goal is to design a futuristic city and discussing its important elements of a city: urban planning, zoning, transportation, energy, economy, environment, and education. Team members represent their ideas and proposals in several ways:

• Essay about the yearly theme (for example, the theme of the 2007-2008 Competition is "Keeping our Future City's Infrastructure Healthy: Using Nonotechnology To Monitor City Structures and Systems")
• Abstract discussing their city's services and ideas.
• Model to show a physical representation of one section of their city.
• Computer Design using Sim City software.
• Presentation to describe their city to the judges on the day of the competition.

Check out Future City's website.

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