Future City Competition
Pittsburgh Region
What is Future City?
Future City is a hands-on cross-curricular educational program that brings STEM to life for students in grades 6 through 8.
Theme for 2024-2025: Above The Current
Design Challenge: Floating City
Design a floating city and provide two innovative examples of how your floating city works and keeps its citizens healthy and safe.
Detailed information can be found here.
Pittsburgh Regional Competition NEWS!
Regional Competition Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Location: FedEx Headquarters
Congratulations and thank you to all of the students, teachers, judges and volunteers!
1st Place Team: Fort Couch Middle School
2nd Place Team: Marion Center Jr/Sr High School
3rd Place Team: Lincoln Park Performing Arts Cs
Future City Competition National Finals
Date: February 15–18, 2025
Location: Hyatt Regency Capital Hill Washington, D.C.
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Special Awards
| Award Name | Sponsor | Winner |
| Outstanding Future City Project Plan (National Award) | Project Management Institute Educational Foundation |
The Ellis School |
| Best Land Surveying Practices (National Award) | National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying |
West Mifflin Area Middle School – Mystic Maples |
| Best Integrated City | Society of Women Engineers Pittsburgh Section | West Mifflin Area Middle School – Eleyta City |
| Best Model | Bowman Consulting | Queen of Angels Catholic School |
| Best Movable Part | ASME | Sewickley Academy |
| Best Transportation System | ASHE Pittsburgh Section | West Mifflin Area Middle School – Bellissima |
| Best Use of Green Construction | Society of American Military Engineers – Pittsburgh Post | Derry Area Middle School |
| Best Use of Nuclear Science Technology | American Nuclear Society | Baden Academy |
| Best Water & Wastewater Systems | GPD Group | Marion Center Area Jr/Sr High School |
| Excellence in Resilience Engineering | Society of American Military Engineers | Fort Couch Middle School |
| Most Creative Use of Recyclable Material | Allegheny County Health Department | Christ the Devine Teacher Catholic Academy |
| Most Innovative Design of Infrastructure Systems | American Society of Civil Engineers – Pittsburgh Section | Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School |
| Most Innovative Transportation Concept | MASITE | Ave Maria Academy |
| Outstanding City Essay | Engineers’ Society of Western PA | The Ellis School |
| Student Choice Award | Engineers’ Society of Western PA | Fort Couch Middle School |
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