Could your problem solving skills make you a WINNER of an international competition?

Since COVID-19 has shut down school, we used Teams to hold a video call meeting. The GIPS and CmPS teams are preparing for the State Bowl and International Conference.

Reviewing Steps 2 and 3 for our first competition practice problem of the year and discussing ways to improve our Readiness Across Mathematics Workshops.

We went over the different competitive components and topics, and then enjoyed some delicious cookie cake.

The Community Problem Solving Team works hard for the State Bowl this weekend! We make our presentation board (and two smaller mini-boards).

We go over the logistics of the trip to the State Bowl and the International Conference. Then, we read at the Community Problem Solving Score Sheet that has judge's comments. We discuss how we can improve the written report, addendum, scrapbook, and PSA for the State Bowl.

The Bellaire Senior FPS team's Project Fresh Hub is the Texas Grand Champion, so we are now prepping for the State Bowl and International Conference

New year, new fun! We begin studying for the new Global Issues Problem Solving topic, Food Waste and Loss.

We are going beyond just volunteering, we must prepare for the competition.

We were chosen to represent Bellaire High School at the HISD Together with Tech conference with our Fresh Hub app! Development of this app is now ongoing.

We also introduced the new GIPS topic: Food waste and loss, in this meeting.

Discussing 2 upcoming Bellaire FPS events: Fresh Hub Market + Scenario Performance Workshop

Apply Criteria and develop and action plan

Creating Criteria

Yay! Congratulations to all 4 teams that participated in GIPS Practice Problem 1. One team placed third out of all Texas teams, and another Bellaire team got nearly a perfect score on the Step 1 (29/30).

We went over the judges critiques to learn how to do even better next round.

New GIPS topic for November Practice Problem

Our Community Problem solving project:

We will provide fresh food alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, for those living in food deserts. Not only will our project provide healthy produce for the 500,000 people living in Houston food deserts, but we will also decrease the amount of food loss and waste. Farmers and grocery stores inevitably waste food when customers reject certain items based on their imperfect appearances. We will take the healthy, fresh produce that would have been thrown away and bring them to our food markets.

Fill out this google form to show us which topics you are interested in: https://goo.gl/forms/dRvVsqlpINKVAKjh2 

Grant opportunity up to $1,000 for project in collaboration with CPA's Helping Schools initiative

Fun Kahoot to help you learn more about the Mission to MMB topic! (Winners got chocolate and candy)

We did Steps 1 and 2 on a practice future scene.

For the first meeting we introduced this year's officers and went over the different competitive components. We also watched an extremely interesting video on addiction.