Mayor Dave Bing isn’t the only one with a plan to radically re-imagine Detroit.

Earlier this year, seventh-grade students at Paul Robeson-Malcolm X Academy on Detroit’s northwest side competed in the National Engineer’s Week Future City Competition, presenting their vision of the Detroit they’d like to inherit.

Detroit Public Television and reporter Desiree Cooper produced an excellent feature on the students and their teacher, Derek Sale, which aired this weekend on the national PBS program “Need to Know.”

Check it out in the video player above.

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