2008 Future City Competition

Hi family!
As some of you may know, a group of my classmates, including Moira, and I are competing in the Future City Competition this year. We had to develop a computer model of our city through SimCity3000 software, and then we had to write an essay on how nanotechnology was integrated into our city's infrastructure. That required us to learn about nanotechnology in the first place! Then we had to actually build a 25X5o inch model, that could only be 20 or so inches tall. The scale of our model is 1 inch = 100 feet. Which means that our tallest building in the model actually measures 900 feet. A 90 story building! As we built the model, we had to develop a presentation. The Barracudas, or Aunt LeeAnn and Aunt Nancy, came and critiqued our presentation, and now it seems much better than it was before.
We're off to Seattle today for the State competition tomorrow, and we thought, as we are frantically cleaning our house before our departure, that we might blog a picture and write about what we're doing! So when we find out how we did, we'll let you all know either by another blog post, or by calling you!
And IF we end up getting first place in Seattle, we win a free trip to Washington, D.C. to compete for Nationals! Which is pretty exciting. Ailis and her team went to Washington, D.C. a couple of years ago to compete, and we got to go with them, and it was a lot of fun, so I hope we can do that this year!
Love you all!
Ciara (and Moira)