Ellis takes first place at Future City competition
Congratulations to the Ellis Middle School Future City team for winning first place at the 2015 Regional Future City Engineering Competition. The team also won special awards of excellence for their essay and their SIM City computer model.
The Ellis Future City team members are 8th graders Erica Davis, Marie Gerges and Lauren Jasper, and 7th graders Ricarda Hill, Claire Hughes, Lela Krackow, and Mishon Levine. Many thanks to faculty advisors Andrea Christian-Michaels and Diane Reckless for guiding the team, and to volunteer Frank Sidari who served as the team's engineering mentor.
Thirty school teams took part in the Future City competition, which took place Saturday, January 17, 2015 at Carnegie Music Hall. This year's engineering challenge was to design a city in which a protein and a vegetable food source could be grown to feed the city for an entire year. The Ellis team set their future city in southeastern Australia and chose molokhia, a leafy green called Egyptian spinach, and chickpeas as their two food choices.
"The girls were polished and knowledgeable in their presentations, their model was creative and well-built, and their hard work and commitment to the project was evident," said Ellis Middle School Director Michelle Rust.
The team travels next to Washington, D.C. in February for the National Future City Engineering Competition. The regional Future City competition is presented by the Carnegie Science Center.
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Thirty school teams took part in the Future City competition, which took place Saturday, January 17, 2015 at Carnegie Music Hall. This year's engineering challenge was to design a city in which a protein and a vegetable food source could be grown to feed the city for an entire year. The Ellis team set their future city in southeastern Australia and chose molokhia, a leafy green called Egyptian spinach, and chickpeas as their two food choices.
"The girls were polished and knowledgeable in their presentations, their model was creative and well-built, and their hard work and commitment to the project was evident," said Ellis Middle School Director Michelle Rust.
The team travels next to Washington, D.C. in February for the National Future City Engineering Competition. The regional Future City competition is presented by the Carnegie Science Center.
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