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Future Problem Solving Australia

Future Problem Solving equips students to tackle complex real-world challenges through research, collaboration, and structured thinking. The program builds critical and creative thinking, strong communication, and ethical decision-making, preparing students to lead and succeed in a rapidly changing world.

Future Problem Solving is typically offered as an extracurricular activity or elective course, and it is open to school students of all ages and grade levels.

The program is structured around a series of competitions that challenge students to apply their creativity and problem-solving skills to real-world issues and scenarios.

Global Issues students are presented with a complex scenario set 20 or more year in the future. They are asked to identify the underlying challenges, generate solutions, use criteria to evaluate each solution and select the best plan of action

Students work individually or in teams to develop their solutions, and are judged on the feasibility, originality and creativity of their ideas.

In addition to honing their problem-solving skills, Future Problem Solving emphasises leadership development. Future Problem Solving equips students with the skills necessary to lead teams and organisations towards solutions for the problems they will face in the future.

Become a Future Problem Solving Coach to help guide and support your students as they develop creative problem-solving skills, teaching strategies for analysing complex issues, helping develop leadership skills and critical thinking.

Future Problem solving hosts online Coach Catch-ups in terms 1 and 2. These sessions give coaches the chance to share information, exchange ideas, explore best practice, and discuss common challenges they face when coaching students.

Program Options for Schools

Global Issues

Students involved in Global Issues learn & practice powerful problem-solving skills that engage their critical and creative thinking.

Community Projects

A stand out project-based program for schools. Students select a real world problem, identify a solution, and then actively implement their action plan to address the problem.

Creative Writing

A Creative Writing competition in which students develop and submit short stories. Students compete individually, developing short stories related to one of five set topics for the year.

Storytelling

An oral storytelling activity for individual students offering the opportunity to develop creative and entertaining, short, futuristic stories related to one of five set topics.

Primary Programs

A non-competitive problem-solving program designed for implementation in the regular classroom. Foundational Skills (Prep-2); Developing Skills (Grades 3-4)

"It’s been 15 years since I entered my first FPS classroom with intrigue, followed immediately by awe and intractable attraction. Why do I still take my daily dose of FPS? I think it’s because the program is more than just a transient test of knowledge and skill. It develops a lifelong mindset and entirely new outlook through which we can see the world. No longer do problems envelop the globe, rather opportunities do: moments that are ready for positive, sustainable change."

Dylan Sherman, FPS Australia Alumni, now Coach, Evaluator, Future Scene Writer, Committee Member, Lecturer and PhD Candidate at University of Oxford

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“20 years ago, I had no idea that one day I would find myself spending a year working in Antarctica… let alone that I would go back again only one year later. But I already knew that I wanted to do something big, exciting, and unique. Without knowing exactly where I wanted to end up, I studied languages because I wanted to explore the world, science because I cared deeply for the environment, and many activities ranging from music and martial arts to Future Problem Solving because I enjoyed them and I knew that they would provide me with skills and confidence that I could carry with me forever. FPS taught me that we can come up with creative ways to solve the problems that humans have created.”

Meganne Wyatt, FPS Australia Alumni, Evaluator

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