About Us
Mission: Texas Future Problem Solving Program’s mission is to prepare students 4-12th grade to be successful leaders through problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and communication strategies.
For 45 years (established 1980), Texas FPS has given students the opportunity to learn and practice their problem solving skills through four exciting competitive components:
- Global Issues Problem Solving
- Community Problem Solving
- Scenario Writing (Creative Writing)
- Scenario Performance (Storytelling)
- NEW- Artistic Expressions
TX FPSP Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing competitive and non-competitive educational tools to Texas students ever since 1980.
Texas Future Problem Solving Program, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 in the U.S.A. under the group tax exemption for Future Problem Solving Program International.
Global Issues problem Solving
Students utilize a problem solving process to solve important issues on a given global topic.
Creative writing
(scenario writing)
Students write a creative and futuristic story highlighting key issues within one of the annual topics.
Community problem solving
Students choose a problem within their own community and develop/implement a solution.
storytelling
(scenario performance)
Students write a scenario on one of the annual topics and then perform it using storytelling techniques.
Texas Future Problem Solving Overview Video:
PARENT / student
Learn more about the benefits of Texas Future Problem Solving and how you or your student can get involved by clicking below.
EDUCATORS
Learn how Texas FPS can enhance the learning environment at your school and best ways to integrate the program by clicking below.
CURRENT PARTICIPANT
Access key competition dates and deadlines, resources and the instructions for the FPS competitions by clicking the link below.
TESTIMONIALS
DAVIS
Alum
“FPS has given me the opportunity to refine my storytelling skills.”
David
Alum
“FPS is so applicable to real life! In advertising, creative briefs are similar to future scenes full of key challenges to overcome. Then we come up with potential solutions.”
Noah
Student
“FPS has been a fun way to work with my friends on solving problems at my school”
Lorien
Alum
““The Scientific Method is a DYNAMIC version of FPS – asking one question leads to another. FPS helped me develop the skills to do that. It was an invaluable experience.”
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Texas Future problem solving makes a difference!
Hear from a Head of School about how the Texas Future Problem Solving Program Student Competition has impacted the students for over 20 years.
