Thirty-Five Students Advance to Future Problem Solving State Bowl

This year 35 Birchwood 6th-8th grade students qualified for the Future Problem Solving (FPS) State Bowl. Each year Birchwood’s 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, Jennifer Seward, and Lorraine Tzeng, will compete at the state level on March 31st:

Junior Division Qualifiers
Maliha Nadkarni, Shivam Mahajan, Olivia Kude, Kyle Vaziri
Reeve Vincent, Saanvi Chari, Nikhil Yalavarthy, Julia McClenin
Leen Salem, Joshua Thomas, Rhea Kumar, Sammy Nemr
 
Intermediate Division Team Qualifiers
Ben Miyares, Brooke Gemenchu, Areesha Nouman, Omar Elbadawy
Arsheya Ahuja, Jaiden Burkholder, Jordan Gordon, Aanya Lakireddy
Isabella Bixler, Adharsh Narendrakumar, Su-Kyi Ng, Tarunika Saravanan, Alex Sideris
Jasmine Chen, Siya Lakireddy, Nicolas Shang, Michael Zhu
Joshua Gordon, Ted Alten, Manya Raina, Jonathan Samulak
 
Intermediate Division Individual Qualifiers
Ayat Jaffar
Joshua Chen
Over 50,000 students participate each year in the competitive components comprised of 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 Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI).
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