Examining the 2002 challenge, City Sights! It became clear that teams that did even the minimal amount of work to meet the challenge for competition would also meet many of the federal and state educational standards.  Here is a list of some of the standards that teams might meet while pursuing a solution to City Sights! In constructing this list, we drew on the national compendium of standards created at the Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning group (McREL), a national educational research laboratory in Aurora, Colorado.