Future City Philadelphia Region

PMI-DVC volunteers have been a key factor in making Furtue City Competition a successful

The students who built Future Cities on the Moon this year are just the right age to be the first to fly on Mars. Show them that and show them this: https://youtu.be/kNx9hcrUpww

Your students built a Future City on the Moon. They might b interested in a Future City on Mars. https://www.dazeddigital.com//what-will-life-be-like-first You can count on next year's Future City Competition having a theme related to sustainability and there probably won't be any limits on where the Future City can be.

Here we go! The National Finals start at 1pm, tune in at https://futurecity.org right now!! Good luck St. Hilary! #FutureCity2021

Tomorrow is the big day! The National Finals start at 1pm, get more info at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-city-awards-celebration. Best of luck to our finalists St.Hilary!!

The St Hilary of Poitiers team made it to #FutureCity2021 National Finals and the winner of the People’s Choice Award might come down to YOU! Vote for their city Eclipse’s Edge today and join us for @DiscovereEorg’s Future City Awards Celebration on April 7 at 1pm ET to find out who wins. The deadline is April 2 vote today! Vote.FutureCity.org

At last week’s Future City Competition the technical support room was names after Katherine Johnson and had a link to her bio. She more than deserves to have a spacecraft named after her. Teachers should take this opportunity to recommend that your students watch Hidden Figures.

Cities on the moon might be closer than you think. Oh wait a minute, hundreds of Philadelphia students showed us their cities on the moon last Saturday. Check out some pictures and videos of them on www.futurecityPhilly.org More pictures and videos are coming.

We have taken Future Cities to the Moon, maybnext year Mars

Congratulations to all of our teams who battled through a tough year to make it to the competition! Best of luck to St. Hilary in the National Finals and hopefully we'll see everyone in person next year!

Final 6 Results: Our 2021 Philadelphia Regional Future City Champion is St. Hilary of Poitiers School! Congratulations and Good Luck in the National Finals! #FutureCityPhilly2021 #FutureCity2021 #LivingOnTheMoon

Essays are due two weeks from today (Mon Dec 21), so get your final edits completed soon! #FutureCity2020

Teachers, looking for something to assign for extra credit? Or if you have girl students who are crazy about computers you can tell them about this: From December 7-13, CS4Philly celebrates National Computer Science Education Week 2020 with free, online activities open to all students in Philadelphia! Help spread the word by sharing this opportunity with your colleagues, teachers, students, and parents. Register now for an activity! See details below. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7: Us...ing Computer Simulations to Solve Complex Problems In this 2-hour online workshop for girls, grades 6-9, presented by CS4Philly partners at TechGirlz, students will learn how scientists use technology to determine how fast viruses spread! Complex systems are all around us from a flock of birds creating beautiful patterns, to the spread of diseases to understanding and protecting ecosystems. Computer simulations are a great tool scientists use to understand complex systems. Students will learn about computer simulations and create their own simulations of an epidemic and what factors make it spread faster or stop. Registrants will need access to a computer and internet. Space is limited so registration is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Grades: Girls, Grades 6-9 Duration: 2 hours Time/Date: Monday, December 7 6:00 - 8:00 pm Register here https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/

Final 6 Results: 2nd place goes to Downingtown MS! Congratulations! #FutureCityPhilly2021 #FutureCity2021 #LivingOnTheMoon

As long as you have a bunch of students thinking about the Moon, have them take a shot at wining $25,000. Which is a lot more than they are going to win at the Future City Competition. https://www.herox.com/LunarDelivery

Someday a city on the Moon will be homebase to asteroid miners. This pretty small scale mining but pretty big exploration. You just might get some ideas for how your Future City will fit into the future solar system economy.

The national Future City Competition has posted a several short videos about 2020-2021 Competition Updates your team should spend some time to view them and share them with your team. https://futurecity.org/about-the-competit/2020-2021-updates

To all those Future City Teams that are building cities on the Moon, this is an opportunity to hear Peter Carrato, Civil Engineer, Bechtel Company Emeritus Fellow talk about the challenges of building on the Moon and Mars. The topic was supposed to about Mars, but he talks a lot about the differences between building on Earth, Moon and on Mars. You can pick up some great ideas to incorporate in your city and your presentation. https://www.planetary.org//0318-2020-pete-carrato-mars-civ

Since you are going to be building a city on the Moon, this would be a good time to take a look at it. Before you do, check out some of NASA’s Moon resources. https://fb.me/e/7KWh6TtvW

Discover E has released a video of astronaut Ricky Arnold of STS-119 talking about building a Future City on the Moon. He shows some of the things that have to be considered on the way to the moon and in closed ecosystems like ISS and a Lunar city. Reminder registration is open for both the Future City Competition and the Philadelphia Future City Engineering Fair. Go to our website to sign up for both. https://youtu.be/JqF4L6Vr1u0

Be sure to jog to the NASA page and see the video

Registration is now open for the Future City Engineering Fair. Due to COVID-19 we have opted to have a series of webinars through the month of October that address the engineering challenge for this year. Go to our website to see our all star list of speakers and register your team to participate. https://futurecityphilly.org/engfair.htm

AAAS is the most prestigious scientific organization in the United States. Join and support Outreach to middle school girls and/or get your middle school girls involved in the Future City Competition

Going to Mars isn't the same as building a city on the Moon but there are going to be some fantastic STEM presentations. It is free for you and your students. https://www.marssociety.org/

The Future City Engineering Fair is going virtual this year. We will be hosting a series of webinars addressing the challenges of having a city on the moon. Students will be able to attend live and ask questions or watch recordings of the presentations on YouTube. The schedule is still being developed, but you can see a partial schedule on the Future City Engineering Fair web site. Registration will start after Labor Day. https://www.futurecityphilly.org/engfair.htm

Changes are coming to the Future City Competition due to COVID-19, follow us on Facebook and check our web page often for updates.

Your team is already going to be designing a Future City that exists 100 years from now. Have the team imagine what there city looked like when it was only a village ten years after it was founded and submit their ideas to: http://www.moonsociety.org/moon-base-design-contest/

This year's engineering challenge is all about a city on the moon. Get started by attending (virtually) a Lunar Development Conference Free registration for full-time students and seniors 60 and older https://www.moonsociety.org/ldc/... Speakers Michael Mealling President, The Moon Society & General Partner, Starbridge Venture Capital Sean Mahoney CEO, Masten Space Systems to discuss their involvement with NASA’s CLPS program. Dr. Doug Plata President & Founder, Space Development Network Ben Smith Founder, Lunar Homestead SPORE: Resource Extraction and Habitable Space Creation James L. Burk Vice President, The Moon Society & Senior Manager, Artic Consulting Rick Tumlinson, co-founder of Space Frontier Foundation, New Worlds Institute, and SpaceFund Emily Law, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA’s Moon Trek Philip Crume, Chairman, The Moon Society Lunar Settlement: The Idea Whose Time Has Come Sara Jennings, University of Colorado Boulder The Next Generation of Lunar Rovers Vincent Roux, Off Planet Research Icy Moon: Origins, Nature, Challenge, and Promise Melissa Roth, Off Planet Research Lunar Regolith: Optimizing a Challenge Elizabeth Kennick, Teachers in Space Standardized Classroom Cubekits Michelle Hanlon, For All Moonkind Heritage and the Artemis Accords Jim Plaxco, Chicago Society for Space Studies The Sustainability of a Lunar Economy Joel. C. Sercel, TransAstra Corporation Lunar Polar Propellant Mining Outpost (LPMO) Chris Richardson, WorldVistA Bootstrapping Lunar Engineering Pete Bonasso, TRACLabs CASE: A HAL 9000 for a Lunar Outpost Darel Preble, Space Solar Power Institute Space Solar Power (SSP) and California’s Dying Power Grid See more