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Future City After School STEM Competition Club (Middle & High Schoolers) Culpeper, Virginia
Future City After-School Club – Now Enrolling in Culpeper, Virginia.
Warrenton, Rappahannock, and surrounding counties are welcome to join!
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Join our Future City After-School Club, a hands-on STEM experience for aspiring engineers, designers, and changemakers! We’re forming two teams: one for middle school and one for high school students. Meetings will start on August 7th, bi-weekly on Thursdays from 3:45–5:45 PM (later arrivals are welcome!) and run through January. They may also choose to meet more frequently or extend meeting times as the competition approaches and project work intensifies.
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Students will collaborate to design and build a model city set 100 years in the future, tackling real-world challenges like sustainability, infrastructure, and public policy, this year's theme is "Farm to Table". Along the way, they'll develop skills in teamwork, research, engineering, budgeting, project management, and public speaking.
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Our regional competition takes place in January 2025 at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore, Maryland. Teams that advance to Nationals will compete in Washington, D.C. (Dates TBD and will be updated here).
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National Prizes (Middle School Team):
1st Place –NASA U.S. Space Camp trip + $7,500 STEM program grant
2nd Place – $5,000 STEM scholarship
3rd Place – $2,000 STEM scholarship
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National Prizes (High School Team):
1st Place – $20,000 cash prize + $10,000 scholarship per student
2nd Place – $14,000 cash prize + $7,000 scholarship per student
3rd Place – $7,000 cash prize + $3,000 scholarship per student
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This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for students to imagine the future and help build it
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There is a one time $25 registration fee to join this club to cover team entry and supply costs.
If you have a student interested in joining our competition team, please fill out the form below!
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