Ten Students Qualify for FPSPI International Conference
This year 35 Birchwood 6th-8th grade students qualified for the Future Problem Solving (FPS) State Bowl. Each year Birchwood 6th-8th grade students apply a six-step model which teaches critical and creative thinking, and problem solving in order to qualify as individuals or teams composed of four students. The following students, coached by Helene Debelak, Diane Owen, Rebecca Graham, Jennifer Seward, and Lorraine Tzeng, placed at the state level:
Junior Division Scenario Writing
Reeve Vincent - 1st place
Saanvi Chari - 2nd place
Middle Division Scenario Writing
Omar Eldbadawy - 1st place
Jordan Gordon - 2nd place
Isabella Bixler - 4th place
Joshua Gordon - 5th place
Junior Division Team Awards
6th graders: Leen Salem, Joshua Thomas, Rhea Kumar, Sammy Nemr - 1st place
6th graders: Maliha Nadkarni, Shivam Mahajan, Olivia Kude, Kyle Vaziri - 2nd place
6th graders: Reeve Vincent, Saanvi Chari, Nikhil Yalavarthy, Julia McClenin - 3rd place
Middle Division Team Qualifiers
8th graders: Ben Miyares, Brooke Gemenchu, Areesha Nouman, Omar Elbadawy - 1st place
Over 50,000 students participate each year in the competition comprising team and individual Global Issues Problem Solving, team and individual Community Problem Solving, and Scenario Writing. About three percent of those participating in FPS competitions earn an invitation to the International Conference of FPSPI. This year all the first place teams and individuals as well as the second place team of the Middle Division will be moving on to the International Conference taking place over the summer.
