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Future City Nets Winners from Fort Couch Fort Couch’s 14th year participating in the Future

City design and engineering competition has a winning way for USC. With this year’s competition hosting more than 40 schools from around the region, Alex Brufsky, Kevin Chen, and Jacob Lantzman represented Fort Couch’s team of nearly 30 students. Students worked together with teachers Connie Gibson and Tim Wagner. The cross-curricular project began at the beginning of the school year, when students were presented with the issue of what

Shortly after presenting the city on the stage of the Carnegie Music Hall are team representatives, left to right, Alex Brufsky, Jacob Lantzman, and Kevin Chen.

The day before competition, several team members added finishing touches to Ville. From left to right are Hridhay Reddy, Mahima Reddy (high school consultant), Caroline McDonough, Jacob Lantzman, and Kevin Chen.

engineers and city planners might do to solve problems associated with transportation. From city planning, using SimCity software, to writing research and narrative essays, to constructing a city based on a scaled design, students brought their city, Ville de la Mobilité, located in present day Brussels, to life! On January 18, the day of competition, students presented the city to a panel of engineers and earned awards for best land surveying practices and the People’s Choice Award, an award voted by their peer teams for having the best city model. n Summer 2014

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