Team Center
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This secure site will:
- Allow you to set up and manage teams
- Allow you to upload deliverables and forms
- Automatically time-stamp deliverables
- Send acknowledgements for uploaded files
- Allow you to obtain detailed scoring reports
Updates
Future City - North Texas 2025-26
[Aug-24] The detailed schedule for NTX region will be maintained on this site: NTX schedule. Refer to it for detailed schedule information for the North Texas Regional Future City Competition and acceptable dates for all the required deliverables. The schedule on the Educator Dashboard is for reference only. In case of discrepency, the NTX schedule linked above takes precedence.
2025-26 FCC-NTX Introductory Information - Overview of NTX rules, resource information and schedule. Download here.
Annual Theme: Farm To Table
[Aug-24] While humans once grew food wherever they lived, today most of our food travels to us from far away. Modern cities make it easy to get groceries from the store—but at a cost. The way we grow, package, and throw away food creates problems for our planet. In fact, about 40% of all food produced ends up wasted, even as 783 million people around the world go hungry. Consider all the steps it takes to get food to your plate: farmers grow it, trucks move it, stores sell it, and finally, you eat it—or maybe you don’t. But wasted food doesn’t just disappear in a landfill—food waste takes up 28% of the world’s agricultural area, uses 25% of all water used by agriculture each year, and creates about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why cities of the future need to rethink how food moves through our lives. One big idea is using the principles of circular economy along the food production pathway —a system where instead of throwing things away, we find ways to reuse, recycle, or repurpose them. In recent years, engineers, scientists, farmers, manufacturers, and city planners are coming up with exciting new solutions like using waste products to feed livestock, designing reusable food packaging, and using smart bins that turn scraps into compost or energy. These systems don’t just eliminate waste, they protect the planet and keep communities strong. The students’ challenge: Design a city that eliminates food waste from farm to table and keeps your citizens healthy and safe.
NTX Future City Junior Competition for 4-5th grades
[Aug-23] The Junior program is an introduction to the full Future City Competition effort. It is focused on the challenge posed by the annual theme and includes the research essay and the physical model deliverables.
The final judging of model and city design will be in-person at the NTX regional event in late January
See the Junior Team Center for the complete rules, description of the program, and registration. Contact Regional Coordinator for more information. Please note: this program is only available in North Texas at this time.
Attention 7th Graders: FC Prelims and Duke SAT Conflict
Future City judging and the January SAT for the Duke Talent Identification Program frequently conflict. Please be aware and consider taking the ACT test or the SAT on one of the other dates (Dec or Mar).
