Arora proudly served as a Silver Sponsor of the DiscoverE Future City Philadelphia Region Competition held on January 21, 2017. Future City is a national STEM-based learning competition that allows teams of students in grades 6, 7, and 8 to envision, design, build, and present a city that exists at least 100 years into the future.<\/p>\n
Each year the students are given a theme that they must incorporate into their city. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cThe Power of Public Space.\u201d Students learned how public spaces can revitalize a city\u2019s economy by introducing new businesses and increasing tourism as well as reducing crime, easing traffic congestion, improving pedestrian safety, promoting healthy living, improving the environment, and enhancing civic engagement. Students were then challenged to incorporate these concepts into their city designs.<\/p>\n
The competition entails several phases including: the design of a virtual city using SimCity software; a city description narrative that describes the unique aspects of the city; a city model that students build to scale from recycled materials and has at least one moving part that demonstrates their future city; and a 7-minute presentation that allows each team to highlight what makes their city special.<\/p>\n
Arora had several employees volunteer their time for different parts of the competition. Allan Stock, Senior Projects Manager and Bob Murray, Senior Vice President and Regional Director served as judges on the day of the event. Donna Guzewski, Senior Plumbing Engineer was a virtual city judge, responsible for scoring the SimCity component of each team\u2019s submission. Christy Batchelor, Senior Marketing Coordinator participated as a City Description Judge, whose responsibility was to read and grade students\u2019 essays prior to the event.<\/p>\n
In keeping with Arora\u2019s mission to Improve the Quality of Life by Rethinking Infrastructure, the firm bestowed a \u201cRethinking Infrastructure for Public Spaces\u201d award to Lionville Middle School from Exton, PA. Lionville was also this year\u2019s local competition winner with their city, Kopiena. Lionville later came in third place at the national competition held in February.<\/p>\n
Arora congratulations Lionville and all the participants in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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