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Students take top places at Future Problem Solving State Bowl

Congratulations to students and teams from schools across our District who recently took top places in the Washington Future Problem Solving State Bowl! Students, who prepared projects on the topic "Water Quality," competed against other individuals and teams from across Washington at the state event held April 13-15 at Warm Beach.

Top team finishers in the Junior Team category were:

• 1st place - Little Cedars Elementary - Student participants were Chris Bianchini, Malakai Fifita, Evan Brees and Mayank Motukuri. Anne Purdy was the coach.
• 2nd Place - Riverview Elementary - Student participants were Cassie Volkle, Madison VanAssche, Maggie Thunselle and Josh Ren. Anjeannette Hammer was the coach.
• 3rd Place - Dutch Hill Elementary - Students participants were Corbin Ditto, Nicolas Cassaday, Jordan Miller and Maryanne Proffit. Zan Peterson-Moens was the coach. 

Other top District finishers included:

• Tyler Roth of Dutch Hill Elementary took 1st place in the Junior Individual category. Zan Peterson-Moens was the coach.
• Tessa Rugg of Dutch Hill Elementary took 2nd place in the Junior Scenario category. Zan Peterson-Moens was the coach.
• Tyler Roth, Griffin Miller, Alicia Fanning, Linda Haataja and Jason Fairhurst of Dutch Hill Elementary took 1st place in the Junior Best Presentation - 1st Performs at Awards category. Zan Peterson-Moens was the coach.
• Aleah DeSchmidt, Mari Hsieh and Allie Curtis of Little Cedars Elementary took 2nd place in the Junior Best Presentation - 1st Performs at Awards category. Anne Purdy was the coach.
• Mia Fleming, Bella D'Angelo, Octavian Culiac and Tyler Tanta of Little Cedars Elementary took 3rd place the Junior Best Presentation - 1st Performs at Awards category. Anne Purdy was the coach.
• Quinlan Ingalls, Payton Jorgensen, Kristin Ringstad and Michael Schonhard of Valley View Middle School took 2nd place in the Intermediate Best Presentation - 1st Performs at Awards category. Leslie Ringstead was the coach.

Within the Future Problem Solving model, teams of four students in grades 4-12 use a six-step model to explore challenges and to propose action plans to complex societal problems. Teams complete two practice problems and one qualifying problem throughout the school year. Trained evaluators score the student work and return it with feedback, including suggestions for improvement.