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SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE DESIGN COMPETITION
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School Building Week's School of the Future Design Competition offers an opportunity to
illustrate the kind of creativity that students bring to the planning and design process. The
competition highlights the importance of well-planned, high performance, healthy, safe
and sustainable schools that foster student achievement and enhance community vitality.
The annual competition, open to middle school students, challenges student teams to
design their schools to enhance learning, conserve resources, be environmentally
responsive and engage the surrounding community. The multi-disciplinary solution
requires students to follow a planning process from the concept phase to completion of
the project, with thorough documentation. The students will present their project to a jury
for review.
Submittal Requirements
Each team is required to submit a project model, a 3 to 5-minute
video or PowerPoint presentation and a 750-word narrative description documenting the
planning process and rationale. Supporting materials, such as plans, elevations,
perspective drawings, Google Sketchup or other CAD drawings, etc. may be submitted on
foam boards and/or tri-fold boards that can be displayed on an easel.
Mentors
Dedicated architecture students, architects, engineers, REALTORS®,
construction managers, facility planners, manufacturers and suppliers contribute their
time in mentoring middle school students through the competition, so that learning about
facility planning, design and the built environment can take place.
Teachers
Teachers are encouraged to use the award-winning School of the Future Design
Competition curriculum and outlined lesson plans as a starting point
for the creative ideas of the participants of the student design competition and to develop
skills in math, language arts, communication, leadership, science technology, architecture
and facility planning.
School district juries will be held in January 2009. Chapter, state and regional juries will
be held in February 2009. Regional juries will recognize both a first and second place
winner. The first-place regional winning teams will receive travel and hotel
accommodations to participate in the final jury process slated for April 29, 2009 at the
American Federation of Teachers. The students will attend a reception in their honor
hosted by the National Association of REALTORS® and spend a day on Capitol Hill with
their respective members of Congress. The week's events culminate in the Awards
Ceremony, May 1, 2009, National Building Museum, where the winning schools will
receive cash prizes.
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