Fifth-graders from Lincoln Elementary School will participate in the Wisconsin Future Problem Solving Program's 29th annual State Bowl from April 15 to 17 in Wisconsin Dells.
The team of students - Janet Fee, Abby Gifford, Lucy Hovel, Dane Sell and Maeve Williams - qualified for the event by being one of the highest ranked teams in the junior division. The team is coached by Lincoln fifth-grade teacher Renae MacCudden.
More than 300 fourth- through 12th-graders from around the state will participate in the Global Issues Problem Solving competition at the State Bowl. Working in teams of four or as individuals, students will analyze 16 challenges of food distribution and develop 16 solution ideas for a situation set in a fictional future and related to the global topic of food distribution. They will develop criteria to use in selecting the best solution and write an action plan for implementing it.
Students have two hours to write with their teams, and then will plan and give four-minute presentations to introduce the best solution action plan.
Global Issues Problem Solving, a component of the Future Problem Solving Program International, is a yearlong educational program in which students learn a six-step problem solving process and apply it to future situations in three practice topics they have researched. The practice topics this year were sensory overload, invasive species and orphaned children.
In Wisconsin, 150 teams from 25 school districts participated in this program during the school year.
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