DCDSB Students Participate in National Future City Showcase

Posted On Wednesday May 05, 2021

The Future City competition is offered worldwide on a yearly basis. This STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) based project is annually offered to students in Grades 6-8, and asks students to imagine how they can make the world a better place. Students must create a city that operates in the future, and that showcases solutions to potential issues. Past topics have included clean drinking water, public spaces, and green energy.

This year, the problem posed was literally out of this world! It challenged students to think about how to create a sustainable city that could possibly exist on the Earth's Moon in one hundred years from now.

Since October 2020, over 300 Durham Catholic District School Board (DCDSB) Grade 6-8 students have researched, planned and built a model city to scale, to address the numerous problems that living on the Moon would pose.

Engineer mentors were assigned and virtually connected with each class. The Canadian Space Agency also offered a live virtual question-and-answer session for students in March 2021.

The DCDSB would like to thank the 18 teacher leads that gave their students this opportunity during a pandemic! We are also very proud to acknowledge that DCDSB led the entire country in school board participation.

The DCDSB would like to thank Engineers Canada for financially supporting participating classrooms with maker-space tools and supplies. In addition, we would also like to acknowledge Engineers of Tomorrow and Ontario Tech University for connecting classes with engineer mentors as well as organizing the Canada-wide showcase. 

The National Future City Showcase takes place on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 and we wish our participating students all the best as they prepare their live presentations, which will be followed by a question-and-answer session with an engineering panel.