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Six steps to making good decisions Framing: Identify the problem. Alternatives: Identify alternatives. Information: Identify possible consequences and research-related problems. Values: Identify your values and understand how they relate to your alter

Problem solvers

Benson High School: Students in an advanced seminar on inventions came up with a portable, automated, solar-powered hydroponic garden that could provide families in sub-Saharan Africa with food. The project is part of a program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Students will take a prototype to Boston this summer.

Morton Magnet Middle School: Students learned about homelessness and poverty, then conducted a food drive. They used the decision-making process they had learned to figure out the best way to collect canned goods. One class opted to go to a grocery store and collected 400 cans.


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