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Opening Opening doors to the doors to the future . . .future . . .

Designed to help students enlarge, enrich and make more accurate their images of

the future, Future Problem Solving engages students in learning.

FPS equips today’s young people with the vision and skills needed to anticipate, understand and solve the problems of tomorrow.

FPSP is interdisciplinary and its components meet the creative thinking, creative writing, leadership skills and academic aptitude needs of gifted students.

FPSP Creative Problem Solving Activities Include:

Team and Individual Problem Solving

Community Problem Solving/ Service Learning

Creative Writing

Curriculum Centered Problem Solving

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Students Students develop develop

generating generating and focusing and focusing skills while skills while

working working cooperatively cooperatively

and and collaboratively collaboratively

in groups in groups

The The FPSPFPSP six-step model for six-step model for building dynamic, creative building dynamic, creative

thinkingthinking IdentifyIdentify Challenges

SelectSelect an Underlying Problem

ProduceProduce Solution Ideas

Generate & SelectGenerate & Select Criteria to Evaluate Solution Ideas

EvaluateEvaluate Solution Ideas

DevelopDevelop an Action Plan

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stimulatesstimulates ImaginationImagination

IngenuityIngenuity

CreativityCreativity

Through Through FPS, students…FPS, students… Develop creative thinkingDevelop creative thinking

Increase awareness of and interest in the futureIncrease awareness of and interest in the future

Learn and employ problem-solving strategiesLearn and employ problem-solving strategies

Develop, utilize and improve research techniquesDevelop, utilize and improve research techniques

Exercise critical and analytical thoughtExercise critical and analytical thought

Improve oral and written communicationImprove oral and written communication

Develop team work skillsDevelop team work skills

Engage in real-life problem solvingEngage in real-life problem solving

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This award winning, educational program was founded in 1974 by Dr. E. Paul Torrance. Internationally renowned for his work in creativity and gifted education, he was also a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Georgia.

FPSP Participation

42 US states, Australia, Korea New Zealand (Mentored Countries: Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore)

Over 250,000 students participate in

Future Problem Solving each year.

FPS impacts positively the lives of 1,000,000 people each year.

In a 1999 survey of CmPS students at the FPSP International Conference it was determined that the 55 Community Problem Solving teams participating in IC impacted 494,000 persons to

date. This figure does not include the over 300 other CmPS teams not attending IC.

Marie Doyle - Miami, Florida

FPSPFPSP Team Competition Team Competition Three divisions:

Junior – grades 4-6 Middle – grades 7-9 Senior – grades 10-12

Four-person teams + coach Students explore complex societal issues 2010-2011 FPSP topics

Healthy Living, Air Transportation, Genetic Testing, Water Quality, and Emergency Planning

Practice problems, qualifying problem, affiliate finals and international competition

Feedback and evaluation provided Top teams advance to International Conference

Teams of four students apply the FPSPsix-step model, facilitated by an FPSP coach.

Today’s students solving tomorrow’s global

challenges

2010 International Conference2010 International ConferenceJunior Division Team CompetitionJunior Division Team Competition

Jaren Brownlee Peyton Heaberlin

Hannah Smith Ethan Stanley

FPSPI 2010 FPSPI 2010 International CompetitionInternational Competition

LaCrosse, WisconsinLaCrosse, Wisconsin

Prep-work.Prep-work.

The opening mixer is one of the highlights of IC where students The opening mixer is one of the highlights of IC where students make new friends and exchange mementos from their home state make new friends and exchange mementos from their home state

or country.or country.

Nervous, Difficult, and Rewarding

2010 Competition2010 Competition

Help open doors to the future.Help open doors to the future.