GUILDERLAND — A team of students from Farnsworth Middle School, which won first place in a regional Future City competition, qualifying the team to compete nationally in Washington, D.C., won an award there for the Most Innovative Power Generation System.

The award was sponsored by the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program.

Thirty-one middle schools from across the nation competed in the 2006 National Engineers Week Future City Competition, each the winner of a regional competition. Students from the Chippewa Middle School in Shoreview, Minn. won the competition.

The Farnsworth team of 18 students was coached by enrichment teacher Deb Escobar, technology teacher Tom McGreevy, and by engineer mentor Robert Sipzner, of Barton and Loguidice.

Team members were: Kari Balogh, Lizzy Whalen, Dana MaLaughlin, Haejin Hwang, Justine Aloise, Lily Li, Chris Miller, Alex Verrelli, Andrew Coy, Paul Travers, Kyungduk Rho, Jessie Feinman, Wade Appleby, C.J. Higgins, Alex Dvorscak, Jonathan McBride, Dan Sipzner, and Brendan Blendell.