OUR MISSION
To develop the ability of young people globally to design and achieve positive futures through problem solving using critical and creative thinking.
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.
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.
Community Problem Solving (CmPS)
• Individual
• Team (of any size)
• Junior – Middle – Senior
Students identify an Area of Concern from their own community to examine over the course of the school year. Projects are developed and implemented utilizing the Six-Step Process.
Scenario Performance (ScP)
• Individual
• Junior – Middle – Senior
Students develop and perform an oral story of up to 5 minutes, based on their future projection of one of the annual topics.
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.
Action-based Problem Solving (AbPS)
• Team (of any size)
• Primary – Junior - Middle
Designed specifically for the classroom, AbPS introduces the teacher and students to creative problem solving in a hands-on, non-competitive manner. Ideal for Primary or Junior level students.
Non Discrimination Policy:
All participants are welcome to participate in Future Problem Solving Program International. FPSPI does not discriminate in violation of the law on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, age, physical challenge, nation of origin, gender, or any other trait.
