UC San Diego: Envisioning and Designing Sustainable Cities of the World
A one-week in-person course at UC San Diego Extended Studies where high schoolers analyze thriving and failed cities worldwide and design their own sustainable city, covering architecture, transportation, waste, and energy systems using mapping software.
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A national engineering and urban-design competition where teams of grades 9-12 students research, write an essay, and build a physical model of a resilient future city addressing an annual real-world theme, advancing through a virtual qualifying round to finals in Washington, DC.
Cooper Hewitt National High School Design Competition
A free national design competition run by the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt museum, inviting individuals or teams of high schoolers to design a solution to a community-focused annual prompt and submit it virtually for judging, with regional and national recognition.
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A one-week NYU pre-college course where students who have completed grades 9-11 study how real estate projects are conceived, designed, financed, and managed, through lectures, site visits, and applied assignments in New York City.
AFSF Annual Architectural Design Competition for High School Students
An annual design competition run by the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco in which Bay Area high schoolers respond to a real urban site brief (such as a waterfront redevelopment), submitting individual or group architectural proposals judged by design professionals.