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Future Cites Competition 2004
By: Ray Ciezki

I attended the Future Cities competition that was held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on 1/24/04. There was over 15 Wisconsin elementary schools that took part in this years competition.



Working with strict criteria, the students had to create a city of the future using Sim City 3000 software, build a scale model within a $100 budget (using recycled materials), write an essay and abstract. The day of competition each team gave an oral presentation before a panel of judges comprised of professional engineers. The city had to be designed with the theme of “How Plastics Will Benefit Senior Citizens in the Future”. Each team took an average of 4 months to complete the project.

Before the judging, Dr. William Gregory, Dean of the UWM College of Engineering and Applied Sciences addressed the 7th and 8th grade teams, teachers and professional engineers who annual volunteer their time to serve as team mentors and judges. It was very impressive to hear these potential future engineers make oral presentations filled with technical information on plastic materials. Their grasp of plastic technology was simply amazing!

The competition was tough, however, the team from the Milwaukee Academy of Science took 1st place in the competition. The members of this team consisted of Asharay Hood, Maurice Sharpe, Johnny Wilder and Curtis Grace. They were guided by their teacher, Lois Noble and volunteer mentor Greg Shroeder from WE Energies. In addition, this team also won the SPE sponsored Essay Contest. I presented each member of the team with a $500 savings bond, and they will be flying to Washington D.C. to compete in the National Finals. Their faces were filled with pride and joy as they were presented with their awards. This is one of the many education activities that we support in Wisconsin.

Additional major sponsors for this event include Rockwell, Forest County Potawatomi Community Foundation, A.O. Smith Foundation, Badger Meter and Midwest Express Airlines.



Future City Essay
Milwaukee Academy of Science
Corona Borealis

Obituary
Dr. Leonardo Juvitron
2206-2234

The visionary city-planning engineer, Dr. Leonardo Juvitron, died Friday having lived a “full life” of 128 years. Dr. Juvitron spent 70 years developing his innovative ideas in Corona Borealis, Iceland and its sister city, Corona Australia, New Zealand. His engineering passions were field of plastics and polymers utilizing nanotechnology.

Mrs. Juvitron expressed that her late husband’s greatest invention was the Juvitron Pod a hybrid-plastic mobile living environments for senior citizens. The conical-shaped pods provide the necessities for a comfortable lifestyle, enabling groups of senior citizens to travel the world while never leaving their homes. These pod travelers begin their excursion by ascending a 6,000-foot space elevator made of carbon nanotube composite fibers. The elevator is attached to a geosynchronous orbiting spaceport. The ascent of the pod begins with mag-lev overcoming inertia and then mechanical and propulsional movement upward. Once a pod reaches the spaceport, it begins travel to the selected destination using hydrogen fuel, solar power and energy from garbage/human waste processed in the microbial fuel plant by bacteria known as “iron breathers”. Each of the pods has commercial, residential, and recreational levels.

The Juvitron’s have spend much of their “retirement” years living and traveling on their Juvitron Pod. They enjoyed their circular plastic home with its auto-bot cleaner. They were kept healthy by their home’s wall coating that kills bacteria. They also exercised and kept active with other seniors in their pod. However, as Dr. Juvitron neared his “full life” of 128 years, he experienced many of the medical difficulties brought on by cellular aging. His wife said he was grateful for the advancements offered by Corona Borealis Nano-medical Center and its associated clinic located on their pod. He had several joint replacements fitted with nanobumps to prevent rejection and they served him well. He, as all of the pod dwellers, had a Bio-Ear plastic cochlear implant which restored his hearing and offered the benefit of language translation when he traveled. This Bio-Ear also provided constant medical monitoring. He took advantage of the advanced plastic nanomuscular fiber organ transplants that have proved to help our seniors’ lived to the 128-year goal of a “full life”. These “muscular fibers” never wear out and present no rejection problems.

Dr. Juvitron’s only son, Leonardo Jr., will continue in the legacy of his father. He is currently coordinating efforts to provide other cities with the surface covering utilized in the two Corona cities. This invention, of Dr. Juvitron, covers the city surface with a double layered, black fullerene plastic. In between the plastic strata is a six-inch layer of potassium tri-iodide. This chemical absorbs heat from the sun during the day and melts at about 88 degrees Fahrenheit. Then in the nighttime, the KI3 changes phase to solid and gives off heat. The seniors, and all of the citizens, love to keep their “feet warm” with this unique invention.

Dr. Juvitron’s inventive passion will be greatly missed.



Future City Essay
Milwaukee Academy of Science
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis, Iceland
2334 A.D.

Milwaukee Academy of Science
The renowned city-planning engineer, Dr. Leonardo Juvitron, built Corona Borealis. This visionary city has the following features:

· Juvitron Pods where seniors live. These hybrid plastic living environments may travel to various parts of the world using a space elevator and geosynchronous spaceport.

· A fulerene-plastic city surface containing potassium triiodide that melts during the day and gives off energy at night when it solidifies.

· A quartz/diamond mine that provides raw materials for the nanotech plastics industry and precious gems for commercial sales.

· Twin towers that house commercial offices, a university, residential living space, a communications center and a revolving restaurant.

· An aquarium/park/art center build on land reclaimed from the mining industry. Sharks come and visit the aquarium through a tunnel to the sea.

· Food Fast – a hydroponics and vermiculture center providing unique vegetables and multi-flavored protein sources.

· The Nanotechnology Medical Center that provides organ transplants, joint replacements and disease control using plastics-nanotechnology materials and products. The center also inserts plastic nanofiber-based cochlear BioEars in all of the citizens for hearing assistance, translation of languages and medical observation.

· Transportation of goods and people parallel subterranean systems.

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