1. National Engineers Week Future City Competition 2011

2. Manhattan Academy of Technology

4. National Engineers Week Future City Competition 2011 New York City Region Manhattan Academy of Technology Spring Creek City From left to right: Ms.Chu, Nicholas Lawrence, Glen Price, Shirley Dong, Antonio Chang Mentor: Divya kannan

5. Intro Location: upstate New York Population: 90,000 Attraction: Self sustainable (food and energy) Several renewable energy sources Recycling center

6. Sky Farms and Energy Food is produced by sky farms Excess food is sold to other cities City uses clean energy 2 different renewable energy sources Rain water is collected

7. Transportation Main way of transportation is biking Many bike lanes Unique bus Cable car- (senior center to hospital) Underground parking

8. Spring Creek City

9. Sky Farm with Solar Panels

10. The Cable Car

11. The City School

12. A Judge Asking Us Questions

13. Transporting the Model

14. Main Judging

15. Winning the Most Creative Transportation Award

16. Group Picture

17. Building the model

18. Research Paper The paper gave special aspects of health care Made us think about health solutions instead of complaining about how bad it is Thinking of possible ideas was hard because we needed to invent a new product

19. Sim City Simulation Meeting the requirements of the competition was challenging It took a lot of trial and error as well as patience The game taught us the major aspects of city planning; for example, where to place certain buildings and why

20. Opinions and Thoughts: We learned about city planning We learned about architecture from our mentor and workshops The work before the model (essay and simulation) was very difficult We also learned about sky farms and agriculture