The Ultimate STEM Competition.
Middle School
Created for middle schoolers in or out of the classroom, Future City combines the engineering design process with project management to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future.
High School
Future City High School promotes STEM learning and teamwork by challenging students to use the engineering design process to create innovative, sustainable cities.
This Year’s Theme
Fire Resilient Future
Design a resilient future city that can prevent, protect, and recover from urban wildfires.
Get to Know Future City.
Future City starts with a question – how can we make the world a better place?
To answer it, students imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future that showcase their solution to a citywide sustainability issue.
Suitable for all program environments.
Applies math and science concepts to real-world.
Access to STEM tools, activities and rubrics.
Project-based and hands-on.
Students explore career options.
Why
Future City?
This program allows students to do what engineers do.
Students design a futuristic city with innovative solutions to some of today’s most pressing issues.
How It All Works
Who Participates
Students, Educators, and Mentors. More than 45,000 students annually in the US, Canada, China, Egypt, and Nigeria.
How to Register
Important Dates
Hear What Participants Have to Say.
We’re Proud of Our Sponsors
Thank you to EA for providing SimCity software to Future City for more than 30 years.
