ACS Future City Teams Compete at the NM Virtual Regional Competition!

ACS Callisto City is the winner of the 2021 New Mexico Regional Virtual Competition. The winning team, along with another two teams from Annunciation School, competed for the top positions in a preliminary Q&A on February 13,2021.  Callisto City made it to the top five and advanced to a finals round on February 14th, then won the Regional Virtual Future City Competition and will be representing our school and the state of New Mexico on March 6, 2021 at the National Future City Virtual Competition held at ACS.

The theme for this years competition is: Living on the Moon, in 100 years. Each team wrote a research paper about two moon resources used to keep their citizens safe and healthy, futuristic technologies that engineers will develop for transportation, agriculture, communication, health, and solid waste disposal. Then they developed a team plan with goals and check points, designed a slideshow, built a city model out of recycled materials, and presented to judges, virtually.

1st Place Regional Winners – Callisto:  Daegan Marsh, James Martinez, Christopher Quintana, Jackson DiLorenzo, Nathan Nguyen  (7th grade)

Team Astronomical:  Jazmine Martinez, Dani Madrid, Zach Brokaw, Thomas Cao, Connor Smith (7th grade)

Team Xenex:  Ava Pluto, Berlin Sikkink, Isabela Torres(7th grade)


Additional awards include:

Best City Presentation  - (Annunciation School - Callisto)
Best Physical Model - (Annunciation School - Callisto)
Best Q&A Presentation - (Annunciation School - Callisto)
NCEES Award - (Annunciation School – Astronomical)
Agricultural Design and Presentation (Annunciation School - Xenex)

A HUGE thank you to the team mentors- Mrs. Marina Marsh, Mrs. Cristina Madrid, Mrs. Angel Martinez,  Mrs. Stacy Pluto, Dr. Charlie Pluto and Mrs. Nicole Sikkink for leading these young groups of students to success!