Students redesign Lake George Village with fuel cells and ‘living bricks’.
Guilderland middle schoolers won Future City with their imagined version of the tourist destination
What would Lake George village look like if it were entirely rebuilt to combat climate change?
A group of 18 Guilderland middle schoolers redesigned the village, complete with fuel cells to power Great Escape, for a competition called Future City.
Their table-sized model won the regional competition. Next month, they’re heading to the national competition in Washington, D.C., on a trip paid for by Future City.
Their challenge was to design a city to combat climate change in 50 years. As they considered how the world might change during that time, they decided solar panels wouldn’t be the main source of renewable energy. Instead, they built wind turbines and a