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Future City: More Than A Competition—It Grows Into A Campus Collaboration Project!, Susan K. Boyd

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A public event on campus can spark creatively on the part of campus organizations and be a real marketing win for all involved. A competition can also be the centerpiece of a learning experience for the campus and surrounding community as well.

When the Chair of Santa Clara University’s Civil Engineering department asked for library lobby space to display the regional winners’ models of the National Engineers’ Week-sponsored Future City Competition, little did he know that it would also evolve into a collaborative library exhibit and presentation.

This is how the university’s Civil Engineering department, University Library, Environmental Studies department, …