Future Problem Solving New Zealand

Opening doors to imagination, ingenuity and creativity, Future Problem Solving stimulates critical, ethical and creative thinking skills. Students learn a six-step problem solving process as they grapple with major global issues through Global Issues Problem Solving, Community Problem Solving and Scenario Writing.


Through the Future Problem Solving Programme students:

  • Develop creative thinking abilities
  • Increase awareness of and an interest in the future
  • Learn and employ problem-solving strategies
  • Develop teamwork skills
  • Improve oral and written communication
  • Exercise critical and analytical thought
  • Engage in real-life problem solving
  • Extend perceptions of the real world
  • Explore complex societal issues
  • Develop, utilise and improve research techniques

Science-related Global Issues our students have studied include:

Neurotechnology, Deforestation, Organ Donation, Depletion of Oceanic Species, Climate Change, Nutrition, Pandemic, Living in Space, Agriculture.

Upcoming topics:

Sensory Overload, Invasive Species, Green Living, Air Transport, Genetic Testing, Water Quality.

Future Problem Solving is a rigorous academic programme that develops excellence in future's thinking and problem solving and provides young New Zealanders with the skills to meet the future head-on

David Middlemiss - "My Future Problem Solving Journey"

I was first introduced to Future Problem Solving and Community Problem Solving when I was in Year 5 at Kerikeri Primary School. At that time little did I know the influence it would have on my life.


Contact New Zealand Fututre Problem Solving Inc.

Science OlympiaNZ

Science OlympiaNZ is a charitable association fostering academic excellence in Science, and brings together:


- Future Problem Solving New Zealand Inc.
- International Young Physicists Tournament NZ
- NZ Chemistry Olympiad Trust
- NZ Geography Olympiad
- NZ International Biology Olympiad
- NZ Mathematics Olympiad
- NZ Olympiad in Informatics (Inc.).

We aim to raise the bar in terms of providing leadership and inspiration for our gifted and talented students within the schooling system and beyond.