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Chapters Mentor Student  Competitions
Student competitions are a fun and effective way for your chapter to get involved with youth and teachers in your community. They also provide a perfect opportunity for you and your peers to use your project management expertise to help students excel and learn new skills.
There are thousands of student competitions around the globe, most of which require students to complete some type of project. One example is the Future Cities Competition, a US competition sponsored by the National Engineers' Week Foundation to encourage students to consider a career in engineering and create their version of a future city. The competition is part of a student's science class and volunteer mentors help students to plan and complete their projects.
To promote awareness of project management, PMIEF sponsors a prize for the Best Project Plan at the national Future Cities Competition. Volunteers from the PMI Washington, DC Chapter serve as judges for the competition.
A number of PMI chapters are already involved with their local Future Cities Competition, including but not limited to Colorado Springs, Milwaukee, Michigan Thumb, Sacramento, and Phoenix. If you are interested in exploring other student competitions, below are two lists for your use:
US Student Competitions and International Student Competitions.
NEW EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE!
Project Management for K-12 Educators - An Introduction 
The key to building successful and sustainable project management programs in schools is to train our teachers. If we are going to make sustainable impact in education, we need to educate the people who are with our children every day in the classroom. Teachers benefit too; they learn a professional skill that will help them manage their classrooms and projects.
PMIEF funded a college of education to create this four hour workshop to provide teachers with an an interactive introduction to project management within the context of the teaching. This resource can be used by your chapter and chapter members as a first step in introducing teachers to project management. It can be downloaded at no-cost for non-commercial use. | 
