WHAT IS FPSPI?
FPSPI is a dynamic international program involving thousands of students annually from around the world. Developed in 1974 by creativity pioneer Dr. E. Paul Torrance, Future Problem Solving (FPS) provides competitive and non-competitive components for today’s curriculum via a six-step model which teaches critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and decision making.
MISSION
To develop the ability of young people globally to design and achieve positive futures through problem solving using critical and creative thinking.
WHAT DOES FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING HAVE TO OFFER?
GLOBAL ISSUES PROBLEM SOLVING (GIPS)
- Individual
- Team (up to 4 students)
- Junior – Middle – Senior
Students learn the Six-Step Process and employ it to respond to a Future Scene provided for each topic.
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SCENARIO WRITING (SW)
- Individual
- Junior – Middle – Senior
Student authors write an original 1500 word piece of fiction projecting their choice of one annual topic into the future.
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Now, for the first time Pakistani institutions and students can compete in the above two competitive components of the FPSPI. To find out more and register, visit: www.fpspi.org
For questions, email Kyla Mocharnuk: kyla@fpspi.org