A team of Phoenix students will travel to Washington, D.C. to compete in the 17th Annual Future City National Finals in February. Veritas Homeschoolers have won the Arizona Region National Engineers Week Future City Competition.
The winning students were among 200 seventh and eighth graders from around the state who presented their complex future city models in a regional competition. Noah O’Connor, Joshua Ekstrom, and Alex Janss, earned this honor along with their teacher, Mary Ann Ekstrom, and volunteer engineer mentor Kenneth Ekstrom.
Team-mates engineered future cities based on a theme of self-sufficient systems with water-efficient homes. They competed with each other for the chance to attend the national competition in Washington, D.C.
The Veritas Homeschoolers winning city, Abundaqua, includes the use of solar collectors, roof top wind turbines, and wave turbines for energy production. Twenty percent of the city is located underground. A bullet train that can reach speeds of up to 300 mph is used for transportation as along with pod cars, buses and a magnetic rail system.
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Congratulations Veritas Homeschoolers! I know you will represent Arizona well. What is a pod car?
Interesting that so many home schoolers excel. Many of the national champs in geography and spelling bees are home schooled. They still have to pass rigorous standardized tests, but high numbers of these students surpass their public school peers.
If I recall correctly Thomas Edison was home-schooled. Home-schooled students are a far cry from the liberal MSM stereotype.
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Thank you for including our team’s victory on your blog.
We didn’t make it to the top 5 at the National Competition, but we did recieve a prestigious award, The Water Resources award from Bentley Systems.
It was an amazing experience for us all.