ROSWELL, Ga., Jan. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- InterDev, an Atlanta area
provider of Information Technology, Security, and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) services, is proud to sponsor the Future
City Competition to be held this weekend at the City Springs
Conference Center in Sandy Springs,
GA.
Future City is a national competition that focuses on improving
students' math, engineering, and science skills. The program
invites 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students to use problem solving
skills to imagine, design, and build cities of the future.
The competition starts with a question to the students – How can
we make the world a better place? The students are given a scenario
in which they must provide a solution to a citywide issue. Past
topics include storm water management, urban agriculture, public
spaces, and green energy. The 2018-2019 theme is Powering Our
Future! Teams will be tasked to design a power grid for Future City
that can withstand and quickly recover from the impacts of a
natural disaster. Winners of the January regional competitions will
move on to compete at the Finals in Washington, DC next month.
After the departure of the Georgia's regional coordinator, Future Cities
organizers suddenly found themselves without a coordinator for the
region and without a venue for the 2019 competition. Eleonora Straub stepped up to the plate and
filled the position. Straub advised the team from St. Jude the
Apostle School that won first place in the regional Future City
competition in 2018, and represented Georgia at the World Competition in
Washington, D.C. "Future City's
competition in GA was in danger of not happening at all since we
lost not only our regional coordinator, but also the location at
which to hold this amazing competition," Straub said.
InterDev's Director of GIS, Mike
Edelson, suggested City Springs for the event and made the
introduction. "Mike saved the day and thus saved the Future City
competition in Georgia!" said
Straub. Edelson has been involved with Future City competition for
many years as a SimCity Virtual City and Special/Society Awards
Judge.
Working together with City Springs and Edelson, Straub was able
to secure not only a state of the art competition location but also
additional sponsors for the event. Straub announced, "On behalf of
all the middle school students in GA, I would like to thank Mr.
Edelson for his brilliant idea, his tireless determination and his
generous support in making Future City competition happen last
Saturday, January 19th, 2019!"
InterDev's GIS team currently provides services to nearly 30
municipalities throughout the Southeast. With the Future City
Competition coming so close to home, the team will have the direct
opportunity to offer their continued support to the program. In
addition, a number InterDev employees have volunteered to help
judge this year's regional competition.
About Future City
Future City is a program of DiscoverE, a consortium of professional
and technical societies and major U.S. corporations. Future City, a
STEM program, is reaching females and underserved students: 49% of
participants are female; 33% of participating schools have 50% or
more of their students enrolled in the reduced or free lunch
program. The annual Future City Competition for sixth, seventh, and
eighth grade students is held from September
2018 through February
2019.
More than 40,000 students from 1,350 middle schools typically
participate nationwide in the regional competitions. The winning
team from each qualifying regional competition receives a trip to
the Future City Finals at the Hyatt Regency in Washington DC, February
16-20, 2019. For more information, visit
http://www.futurecity.org.
About InterDev
Beyond their principal role as a strategic provider of Managed IT
and Security Services, InterDev is well known as a champion of IT
visioning and innovation for growing businesses and government
agencies – a role they perfected over nearly four decades. In
addition to managing and hosting IT operations for its valued
clients, InterDev also offers MosaicGIS™, a cloud-based,
software-as-a-service GIS platform based on Esri, as well as VoIP
telecommunications services and circuit solutions. InterDev
delivers services to businesses and municipalities throughout the
Southeast and Midwest from their offices in Atlanta, Beaufort (SC) and Chicago. For more information, visit
http://www.interdev.com.
SOURCE InterDev