Middle schools from New York City and Long Island compete in a regional competition. This year's New York City Regional Competition will be held at Polytechnic University's new student center in Brooklyn on Saturday, January 19, 2008. The winning team advances to Washington, D.C. to compete against teams from across the country in the national finals of the Future City Competition, a featured event during National Engineers Week.

Volunteer Opportunities

Competition Planning Committee

The competition planning committee meets once a month between September and January in order to compile mailings and also coordinates miscellaneous tasks between meetings via e-mail. Between February and August, there a few follow-up tasks for the committee to complete, but no meetings. If you would like to volunteer on the competition planning committee please e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , the NYC Regional Competition Coordinator.

Mentoring

Mentors should be an engineer from the New York City metropolitan area who is interested in visiting a local middle school approximately 7-10 times between September and January (one visit every 3 weeks).

Each time you visit the school you will go over a different engineering topic with the students, for example: bridges, buildings, zoning, power supply, power production, water supply, pollution, traffic impacts, transportation, manufacturing, etc. These topics do not have to be spoken about in complete detail; a general overview of each topic will suffice as the students are in seventh and eighth grades. Mentors can be from any engineering discipline, but should have a general knowledge of most of the topics listed.

For more information, please review a copy of the Engineer-Mentor Manual on the Future City Competition website. If you are interested in volunteering as a mentor, have any questions about mentoring, or would like to obtain additional information, please feel free to e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , the NYC Regional Competition Coordinator.

Sponsorship

We welcome local engineering firms to become sponsors of the competition and help the next generation of engineers to learn the benefits of our profession. The New York City Regional Competition is supported by contributions from local engineering businesses and professional societies. If your organization would like to become a sponsor, please see our sponsorship packet. Sponsors of the 2007-08 competition included: