第2912期: Future City Competition

This is Yemoga, a winning model for this year's Future City Competition.这是Yemoga，今年未来城市设计大赛的获胜模型。The concept was engineered by a team of middle school students from the Midwest state of Indiana.这一概念是由来自美国中西部印第安纳州的一群中学生提出的。The competition's theme this year-Clean Water: Tap Into Tomorrow-has asked students to focus on creating reliable supplies of clean drinking water.今年比赛的主题是“清洁水源，共创未来”，要求学生专注于创造可靠的清洁饮用水供应。The program ever all pushes students to imagine and build the cities of the future.这个项目一直都在推动学生去想象和构建未来的城市。A judge for the Future City Contest says it taps into the creativity and imagination of students.未来城市设计大赛的一名评委表示，该比赛激发了学生的创造力和想象力。They can talk about how the future should be as they see it right in their mind, and tackling a problem which they know is going to affect the greater population in the future,他们可以畅谈自己心中所设想的未来图景，着手解决必将影响大众的议题，and then being able to use limited resources that they have, and also innovate in terms of technology to creatively solve those problems.运用有限的资源，通过科技创新来创造性地解决这些问题。The international program in its 28th year had 45,000 middle school students, who participated from 1500 schools from more than 40 US regions.这个已有28年历史的国际项目吸引了来自美国40多个地区1500所学校的45000名中学生参与。It's a project that involves a lot of engineering and a lot of different skills, and so there's four different parts to it.这是一个涉及大量工程和多种不同技能的项目，因此它分为四个不同的部分。There's a theme city which is designing a virtual city; there is an essay of 15,000 word essay that you have to write; there's a model that you have to build;设计虚拟主题城市；写一篇15000字论文；制作一个模型；and then there's a presentation which you present at the competition and you answer questions.然后你要在比赛中做一个演讲，并且回答问题。Well over here, we had to ship it here and a lot of the parts fell off when we were here, so we had to work a lot on getting this back on.我们得把它运到这里来，而且很多零件在运输途中都脱落了，所以我们不得不花很大功夫才把它重新装好。The other top five teams include those from the Great Plains, which covers Kansas and the Kansas City metropolitan area, North Carolina, Albany which is the capital of New York, and Idaho.其他排名前五的团队分别来自覆盖堪萨斯州和堪萨斯城的北美大平原地区、北卡罗来纳州、纽约州首府奥尔巴尼以及爱达荷州。Indiana, as the grand prize winner, received $7,500 for its school STEM program and a trip to the US Space Camp. 大奖得主印第安纳州获得了7500美元奖金，用于学校的STEM项目和美国太空营之旅。