Welcome to the Future City Mentors Support Page
This Community is dedicated to the support of the mentor through collaboration and shared best practices. It's where new and seasoned mentors thrive and curious mentors-to-be can learn what it's all about.
Are mentors required for a Future City Student Team?
YES! The mentor is a valuable part of each Future City team (Students and Teacher). The mentor contributes professional knowledge, real-world experience, team leadership skills, and most importantly their own passion. Fun Facts for Future City Mentors
- You do not have to be a computer genius - the students probably are already!
- Anyone can be a mentor - just bring your passion for science, technology, engineering, and/or math!
| Become a Future City Mentor in 3 easy steps! |
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Step 1: Register as a Future City Mentor |
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Step 2: Contact your local Future City Regional Coordinator for team assignments |
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Step 3: Join the Be Mentors - Future City Mentors Community to... |
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- Participate in virtual mentor workshops synchronized with the competition objectives, timelines, and events
- Share and learn mentoring best practices from nationally recognized mentors and guest speakers
- Engage in community discussions and blogs through Be Communities’ Be Mentors
- Learn how to better assist the student team throughout the competition
- Maximize your time! Use the community tools to connect to teams virtually, obtain progress reports, review essays, answer questions, and maximize your face-to-face time with the students and teachers
- Get your FREE digital tool kits for classroom presentations and mentoring events
- Document your volunteer time and both you and your company/organization will be publicly recognized for doing great things in your community!
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Get Started: Mentor Kit!
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Interested in starting a Future City Team at a school near you? Go here to get some basic information to hand out to a teacher. You may want to send them these links: www.FutureCity.org, Future City Teacher Handbook, a Brochure, or Future City Video
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Mentoring sounds great, but it does not fit my schedule. Is there something else I can do to get involved?
Yes! Aside from volunteering as a Future City engineer mentor, you may sign up as a Future City Regional Competition judge, score team essays or review “aka play” Sims City computer simulations, score student presentations, and help out or judge at a Regional Competition in your area in late January. Connect with a Regional Coordinator and get involved. There are also many more programs featured on Be Mentors. |
By choosing to be involved with a Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) program such as the Future City Competition, you can become more involved in the education of your community and contribute firsthand in building future infrastructure professionals.
About the Future City Competition:
The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition® is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present the student’s vision of their city. An expected 33,000 6th-8th graders from 1,100 schools across the country will participate in the National Engineers Week Foundation’s 2011-2012 Future City Competition®. These students are asked to serve as engineering leaders for a virtual city that supports and sustains the demands of citizens' daily needs. Students succeed in this endeavor, but not without the assistance and guidance from their teachers and engineering mentors.
Philadelphia's Our Lady Help of Christians School 2011 National Engineers Week Future City Competition Wins! |
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Future City Competition Kickoff, "Fuel Your Future" Webinar
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Visit the Be Mentors Community for more upcoming events.
Here is what a few mentors had to say about last year’s Future City Mentoring Community:
“This was my first time to Mentor - sharing of what other teams are doing and talking through issues was helpful. Quite often, a question was raised on the call that I had not even thought about.”
“Good to know that someone else has experienced similar successes and/or problems.”
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