Future Problem Solving of California

Congratulations to all the students that competed in the 2013 California Future Problem Solving State Bowl!

Global Issues Problem Solving Team Winners:

JUNIOR DIVISION:

1st Place--St. Anne School
Grace Aitken, Kiley Espineira, Sean Sullivan, Elle Peloso Coached by: Kanchan Dudani, Paul Breazeale, and Kim Rosalino

2nd Place--The Nueva School
Parker Phillips, Audrey Kost, Lilly Schroeder, Ada Weinstein Coached by: Diana Nemirovsky and Jon Polly

3rd Place--Torrey Hills School
Michael Xu, Ewdward Li, Adam Zheng, Andrea Liu
Coached by: Erica Rood

JUNIOR DIVISION:

1st Place--Elizabeth Kwon, Ocean Air School
Coached by: Ariella Leeder

2nd Place--Mackenzie Bivin, Turtleback Elementary
Coached by: Nancy Myles

3rd Place--Benjamin Chose, Turtleback Elementary
Coached by: Nancy Myles

4th Place--Annie Lu, Ocean Air School
Coached by: Ariella Leeder

5th Place--Karanina Zim, Ocean Air School
Coached by: Ariella Leeder

MIDDLE DIVISION:

1st Place--Chloe Chose, Oak Valley Middle School
Coached by: Nancy Myles

2nd Place--Shannon Hong, The Harker School
Coached by: Cyrus Merrill

Congratulations to all students that attended IC at Indiana University this month! We are so proud of you and all of California's success.

SENIOR DIVISION--1st Place!!!

The Harker School

Ria Desai--Nikhil Dilip--Sonia Gupta--Pooja Shah
Coach: Cyrus Merrill

MIDDLE DIVISION--4th Place

The Harker School

Tiara Bhatachary--Juhi Muthal--Madhu Nori--Sindhu Ravuri
Coach: Cyrus Merrill

We are looking forward to exploring the exciting topics selected for the upcoming year. We will start by exploring our Culture of Celebrity with Practice Problem 1, and then continue by discovering the Robotic Age for Practice Problem 2. Our FPS experts will compete in the Qualifying Problem on the topic of Megacities and then our top teams will continue to our State Competition in San Jose, California on the topic of Ocean Soup!

Interested in becoming an evaluator this year? Please contact californiafps@gmail and check back for evaluator training information.

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Practice Problem # 1 Culture of Celebrity
Practice Problem # 2 Robotic Age
Qualifying Problem Megacities
Affiliate Competition Ocean Soup
The 2013 International Conference topic will be announced in the Spring of 2013.

Culture of Celebrity

We are so excited about the success of our first 2-day State Bowl! Our students spent Saturday and Sunday exploring the topic of Trade Barriers through our two hour written booklet competition and amazing oral action plan presentations.
Please check out the link below for a glimpse of highlights from the weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQY2KmuPv8