Community Collaborations
Future City Competition
The Mascaro Center’s IGERT students served as mentors for the 2008 and 2009 National Engineers Week Future City Competition. The goal of the competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their visions of a city of the future.
In 12008, IGERT students Bhavna Sharma and Dave Sanchez worked with the Carmalt Academy of Science and Technology. The team won the Best Transportation System Award in the competition.
In 2009, The Carmalt Academy of Science and Technology, a Pittsburgh Public School, participated in the Pittsburgh Regional 10th Annual Future City Competition. The class was led by their science teacher Mrs. Lorie Ulmer and IGERT student Bhavna Sharma. The team won two special awards for their model, the Best Indoor Environment and the Best Integrated City.
For more information on Future Cities, visit http://www.futurecitypittsburgh.org/
