LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) – For his or her wonderful expertise at scientifically imagining a greater future a whole bunch of years from now, college students from the Las Vegas Day College now know their speedy future.
The crew goes to Washington D.C. subsequent month – together with center faculties from throughout the nation – for the nationwide “Future City” competitors.
There have been 16 groups at this previous weekend’s Nevada Future Metropolis occasion. All of them constructed imaginary floating cities utilizing engineering and science to unravel issues of immediately.
Pupil Charlie Erickson from Bob Miller Center College:
“You write an essay, you create a presentation, and you make a model about the city.”
Town fashions have to suit on a desk and be made solely from recycled stuff.
Whereas Charlie’s crew did not make it to the ultimate 4 at Ham Corridor on the UNLV campus, one other Miller crew did, all dealing with a panel {of professional} engineers who requested powerful questions like:
“How does the wave address climate change?”
Different groups within the high 4 have been from Hyde Park as nicely the primary ever homeschool group within the native competitors.
Trainer Jenny Klimek says the Day College college students spent 5 months finding out rising sea ranges and floating cities. Their exhausting work and dedication has paid off, and we’ll hold you posted on how they do within the nationwide competitors.
And a shout-out to the whole engineering group for mentoring the scholars who now might know greater than some adults about how cities work. And – full disclosure – I have been the MC of the Nevada Future Metropolis last spherical of competitors for greater than 20 years.
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