Thanks to our Northeastern University partners at CASP for hosting the Future City Engineers event where the kids had a chance to design their own cityscapes.  Here is a writeup about it all.

Northeastern University student groups American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) volunteered to help run the Future Cities program for the Curley After School Program (CASP) in Jamaica Plain. Future Cities is a Boston Society of Civil Engineers (BSCES) hosted event that teaches middle school aged children the complexities of civil engineering in a three pronged approach. First the students design a city using the computer video game SimCity. Next the students write a short paper describing the city. Lastly they build a scale model of the city and present the city at a competition. The Northeastern University students Michael Littman, Joel Shaffer, Matthew Grote, and Alston Potts worked with Daniel Sullivan from the Center for S.T.E.M Education to provide engineering knowledge to the Curley School students in the program. Although the students did not participate in the competition, as they were too young, they still made each component of the project and were presented with an “Officially Licensed Future City Engineer” certificate for their involvement in the program.