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Woodland School’s Future Problem Solvers team of fifth- and sixth-graders – made up of Ella Aspinall, Zachary Sayyah, Ryan Su and Nikhil Chand – placed third in the state in a recent global issues problem-solving competition.
The event was held at Nueva School in Hillsborough and organized by Future Problem Solving Program International.
The private Woodland School is based in Ladera.
Woodland’s was among 19 teams in the junior division given two hours to complete an evaluation and propose an action plan based on the theme of identity theft.
The Woodland team’s action plan focused on a multi-level security device called the Quadruple Mummy Scanner (QMS), which would scan a person’s fingerprint, iris, voice and DNA. They proposed the government-sponsored program would first be implemented in cities with the most fraud and be rolled out across the United States over a five-year period.
Woodland seventh-grader Emily Harris was on a team made up of students from around the state that also took third place.
Nikhil Chand, a student who participated in the international competition in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in June, competed with a team of three other students from three other states. The team won third place in the scenario writing junior competition.