Outreach
The South Carolina Future City Regional Competition is a great outreach event and science fair for teams of middle school students and their teachers and engineering mentors. Teams build their vision of future cities under a particular theme and challenge set by the competition’s national organizers. Future City is one of the many initiatives of National Engineers Week by DiscoverE. DiscoverE is a coalition of more than 100 STEM organizations, including IEEE-USA. The IEEE Columbia Section supports this outreach program. Each year, since 2014, the Section has awarded the team with the “Best Distribution of Energy” a prize of $750.