As an Engineer Mentor in the National Engineers Week Future City Competition, you will give 7th and 8th grade students an opportunity to learn about engineering. The contest consists of creating a city simulation in SimCity, building a scale model of a portion of the city, writing an abstract about their city and an essay on a topic selected by the Competition, and reciting an oral presentation to describe the merits of their creation. Your role as a mentor would be to give the students information on how engineers help design, build and improve cities.

For more information about Future Cities please visit www.futurecity.org.

To volunteer, contact Rachelle Lowe at rllowe@burnsmcd.com.

(Last Updated 11/01/2009)