From Katrina to Chernobyl, Future City Competition Students Engineer Solutions that Inspire and Amaze

摘要

For most, the recovery from Hurricane Katrina has been a slow, painful journey of grim choices. But, for some young minds, there''s only great potential for wonderful change. "We have a plan to improve New Orleans," says Melanie Eddington, an eighth-grader at St. Thomas More School in Baton Rouge. "And it could improve New Orleans now." What has inspired a 14-year-old to devise a plan to save the Crescent City is the National Engineers Week Future City Competition™, an engineering challenge where tens of thousands of students nationwide are considering how to revitalize not only New Orleans, but other cities as well.