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Fort Wayne Team Headed To DC For Future Cities

    This national competition is sponsored by Discover E – an organization committed to encouraging careers in the engineering fields.

    Carol Dostal, the Director of Outreach for the College of Engineering, Technology, Computer Science at IPFW, and the Indiana coordinator for the Future Cities competition, said the benefit of the competition goes well beyond science and engineering.

    “There is a strong liberal arts component to it,” Dostal said. “The students have to write an essay they have to do research, but then they have to present their city to a panel of judges.”

    During that presentation time, the students have to defend what they’ve designed via a three-minute question-and-answer session.

    In January, area middle schools headed to IPFW to via for the regional finals of the Future Cities Competition. The contest features tabletop models of future cities. If you spend any time with middle schoolers, it’s rare to hear these words.

    Read more at: wboi.org

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