City of the Future
What will the world look like hundreds—or even thousands—of years from now?
Step into the world of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and become a futuristic engineer, architect, and inventor! In this imaginative, hands-on STEAM workshop, students will explore the possibilities of the future while developing their creativity, engineering, and design skills.
After traveling through time, students will arrive in a world unlike anything they have ever seen. Their mission? Design and build a city of the future!
Working as teams of futuristic architects and engineers, students will imagine how people might live, work, travel, and communicate in the future. They will design and construct their own futuristic environments, exploring creative solutions to challenges that cities may face as technology, populations, and environments change.
Students will use the engineering design process to brainstorm, sketch, build, test, and improve their creations. They might design flying transportation, towering skyscrapers, underground cities, renewable energy systems, robot helpers, futuristic homes, or entirely new technologies that don't exist today.
Throughout the workshop, students will learn about architecture, engineering, and urban planning as they transform their ideas into a collaborative futuristic world.
Students will:
- Explore the engineering design process through hands-on challenges
- Design and build a city of the future
- Explore futuristic architecture and urban planning
- Create imaginative buildings, transportation, and technology
- Develop creative solutions to future problems
- Learn how engineers and designers plan and build communities
- Practice collaboration, problem-solving, prototyping, and design
- Explore how STEAM disciplines can work together to imagine the future
Will your city float above the clouds? Travel beneath the ocean? Run entirely on renewable energy? The future is yours to design!
The Time Traveler's journey begins with you. Where will you take the future?