PMI Phoenix specifically supports and works with Future City to provide feedback and judge four deliverables required for each team: Project Goals, Project Schedule, Project Status/Check-in, Project Reflection. Arizona Future City is slightly different from the national organization in that we require the Goals, Schedule, and Check-in documentation in advance of the competition deadline. With that documentation, we have a team of volunteers who review and provide written feedback to each team on their submissions. This allows the teams to improve their materials and to get a "real-life" perspective on their submissions.  Additionally, we have also provided the teachers with materials (both written and video based) to help them with additional resources in building these items.

Thank you to John Chico, Ronnie Watley, Jakub Marciniak, and Srinivas Kandela for being the judges during the course of the year and also for the day of competition.  Thanks especially goes to Trevor Stasik for his amazing management support and also being a competition day judge.

On the competition day, we also interview and award a Project Manager Award to a deserving individual who has led their team and demonstrated project management principles.  This year we awarded the Project Manager Award to Amyah Clark Martinez from Maricopa Wells Middle School.  Her teacher was Janell Hudson.  Janell wrote about Amyah: "She has gone above and beyond in her role as the project manager. She was willing to step in for group members when they were absent from school. She was present for all team meetings and played an important role in keeping the group on track. Amyah worked with the group to research the topic, build buildings, design the moving parts, and helped in designing the solutions to the threat. Her teammates speak highly of her and were eager to say that their "project manager is the best!" Amyah is considered as not only an outstanding project manager but an outstanding teammate as well."

(Picture from left to right: Steve Poessnecker, Amyah Clark Martinez, Janell Hudson)