Congratulations to two Mid-Prairie Global Issues Problem Solving teams for qualifying for and competing at the State Bowl level of the Future Problem Solving Program on Friday, April 23, 2021. The Middle School qualifying team consisted of Kale Bailey (6th), Quincy, Duvall (6th), Landon Humble (7th), and Owen Zirkelbach (7th). Ninth graders Abigail Fleming, Joe Hall, Phoebe Shetler, and Avery Slaubaugh qualified for state for the fourth year in a row.
At the competition, students were given a future scene on the topic of “Personalized Medicine” and within the two hour time-frame brainstormed possible challenges, determined an underlying problem, brainstormed many solutions ideas, set and applied their own criteria to judge their solutions, then wrote an action plan detailing their selected solution idea. Teams will be judged on fluency, flexibility, clarity, originality, elaboration, relevance, focus, purpose, impact, development, research applied, creative strength, and futuristic thinking. Written packets were submitted to evaluators to determine what Iowa teams will qualify for the International Bowl in June. Coach Rebecca Rensema is proud of all of her teams for the research, analysis, creative thinking, problem solving, and teamwork they put into this unique year of Future Problem Solving.
Owen Zirkelbach, Landon Humble, Kale Bailey and Quincy Duvall
Avery Slaubaugh, Abigail Fleming, Phoebe Shetler and Joe Hall
