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Future City Competitions - Surveying Award Judges

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My name is Christian and I work in outreach with NCEES. I’m hoping CLSA might be able to help with a surveying outreach effort. I’m trying to recruit surveyors to be judges for a day in a STEM competition. 
  
NCEES sponsors the Best Land Surveying Practices award at both the regional and national level of the Future City Competition. If you don’t know what Future City is, it is a national, project-based learning experience in which 40,000 students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade from 1,350 schools imagine, design, and build cities of the future. They create a virtual city and then build a 3D model (usually out of recycled materials) for judges to grade at a regional competition. If they win their region, they go on to compete in the national competition in February, which is the main competition.  
  
Then, there is the NCEES Special Award for Best Land Surveying Practices. All regions have multiple special awards, but the NCEES judge a city model based on surveying and interact with the students and answer questions about the surveying profession. We see it as a great opportunity to introduce young students to the surveying profession. 
  
Again, I am trying to recruit surveyors to be judges for the surveying special award in two California regional competitions. I was hoping CLSA might be able to provide potential names or connect me with folks that may be interested. Below are the dates and locations. 
  
Southern California Regional: 
Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024 
Location: Woodbury University, Burbank, CA. 
  
Northern California Regional: 
Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024 
Location: TBD (last year it was in Sacramento) 
 
Email Christian Cernauskas at ccernauskas@ncees.org if you're interested.

 

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