This past Saturday, three 7th grade students competed in the 2014 Future City competition at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Nancy Kane, Sarah Murczek, and Cassidy McCormick, were awarded 4th place in the competition.
Future City is an education program that gives students an opportunity to think like city planners and engineers. Students considered many issues including planning and maintaining their city, taxes and services, emergency, transportation and education matters, zoning and infrastructure, and location.
"The girls worked on the project for months, putting in countless hours after school and on weekends, mostly with the help of their families, particularly Nancy's father, Mr. Kane," reported OLHMS Math teacher, Mary Doran.
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Both Mrs. Doran and OLHMS Art teacher, Mara Petraitis, enjoyed their time at UIC cheering the girls on. "It was awesome to see our OLHMS students advance to the top 5 as the only 'all girl' team!"
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National Engineers Week Future City Competition™(2011) " What Is Future City?, Retrieved 30 Jan. 2014 from http://futurecity.org.
