Franklin students partake in 'Future City' competition

Published Jan 28, 2019 at 2:27 pm (Updated Jan 28, 2019)

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Team Mokupuni won the “Best Land Surveying” award. Pictured back to front: Emily Pauciello, Jessica Loaiza, Amanda Fiedler, Victoria Niezgoda, Jackson Moller, Jack Veith, Nathaniel Steyling, Bailey Lynch, Angela Patti, Dylan Higgins, Layla Giron, & Seamus Cummings.
Team Hephaestus students placed 6th out of 88 teams. Pictured back to front: Joseph Peterson, Sebatian Lorenc, Mackenzie Lynn, Noah DeRenzo, Jamie DeRoide, Ella Darvalics, & Rihanna Osborne.
The Eighth grade team won the award for “Most Sustainable City”. Pictured back to front: Ryder Darvalics, Winston Hennings, Brandon Todd, Brian Hall, Asia Lamlamay, and Nicole DeFinis.

FRANKLIN — Students in Ms. Fedynich's enrichment class at Franklin Borough School were excited to partake in the annual "Future City" competition at Rutgers University where 88 New Jersey middle school teams participated.

The students were required to design and build a city 100 years into the Future.

This year’s theme was “powering our future” where students were challenged to design a resilient power grid that could withstand and quickly recover from natural disasters. In addition to designing and building a scale model, the students completed a virtual city design using SimCity, a slide show, a 1,500-word essay, a project plan, and a presentation. All three teams placed in the top 20.