Register your school for the 2027 Competition

Philadelphia Saturday January TBD, 2027

The 2026 — 2027 Future City Competition Theme
Fire Resilient Future

The Challenge
Design a resilient future city that can prevent, protect, and recover from urban wildfires.

The mission of the DiscoverE Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for middle school students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future.

The Philadelphia Regional Future City Competition is a 501.c.3 educational outreach program of DiscoverE. We are one of over 50 regional programs conducted throughout the the United States and the world with the goal to introduce middle school students to the engineering profession.

The Philadelphia Regional Competition draws schools from Philadelphia and surrounding counties including the Lehigh Valley, Southern New Jersey and Delaware. Students from middle schools and after school programs in the region form teams consisting of 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade students who work with a teacher and an engineer mentor from September to January.

For Web site Information see Steering Committee

Photo by  Scott Serhat Duygun

Last Modified 06/24/2026