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On Wednesday, the Tasmanian Association for the Gifted presented a cheque for $500 to the students of Goulburn Street Primary School to assist their Future Problem Solving team to travel to the National finals today.
“Programs such as the Future Problem Solving provide an excellent way in which our brightest students can be challenged to think outside the square,” said the president of the Tasmanian Association for the Gifted, Lynne Maher. “This helps to prepare young people, who are potentially our future leaders, to formulate creative solutions to real world problems.”
The Tasmanian Association for the Gifted negotiated with the previous Minister for Education, Lin Thorpe, and the Education Department for a pilot program which would better challenge the minds of some of Tasmania’s gifted students, and the success of this group of young people in the State competition is a result of that program.
“Our organisation is a small one, composed entirely of volunteers, interested in furthering the education of students with the greatest potential. We are pleased that a small profit from a recent state conference has enabled us to financially support the team,” said Ms Maher.
Ms Maher continued, “While it is important that activities such as Futures Problem Solving are offered to our brightest students, it is also vital that their everyday classroom experience stimulates and challenges them and we look forward to seeing this as an ongoing result of the pilot program at Goulburn Street”
The attached photo of the cheque presentation includes Jarra Horstman, Lynne Maher (TAG President) Lilli Warman, Mrs Jenny Tayler (pilot program teacher,) Amelia Maxwell, Bethany Stanley and Mrs Gay Cumming (principal, Goulburn Street Primary School
TAG president Lynne Maher
