STEP 1. Identify Challenges

Thoroughly read and think about the future scene, consider the many challenges, issues, concerns, and problems related to it. Generate as many challenges as you can. Focus on 10 challenges you think are the most important. Write your 10 challenges below. Word your challenges clearly; state the challenges as possibilities; use sentence statements, not questions. All of your work must be contained in this booklet; if necessary, use the reverse side of a page. No extra pages are scored!

Since Europe has a strict biotechnology regulatory system that prevents genetically engineered plants from being grown and eaten in Europe, a problem might be that the countries that do support it will lose connection and friendliness with Europe in 2024 and beyond in the global community, messing up the worlds trading system.

Since 80% of all crops in the USA are genetically modified and engineered, a problem might be that this little-tested food crop will cause damage to you years after you eat some, hurting and causing pain to the people of the USA and everyone else who eats genetically engineered food in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

Since articles debating genetically engineered food have caused distrust and fear amongst consumers, a problem might be that this distrust and fear causes too much stress while merely food shopping and eating, making their psychological health worsen in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

STEP 1. Identify Challenges (continued)

4.	Since genetically engineered food allows USA farmers to grow crops 65% cheaper and with much greater yields, a problem might be that this crop cost reduction causes the economy to drastically change, affecting the world over in this ever connected world in 2024 and beyond in the global community.
5.	Since genetically engineering and modifying food is done by splicing the genes of one species with another’s genes, a problem might be that during this “splicing” something unknowingly goes wrong and is still planted, then does not do what’s intended in 2024 and beyond in the global community.
6.	Since Japan and Europe were against genetically engineered crops but Japan has recently showed interest in genetic engineering, a problem might be that finally Europe, one of the best regulating countries of this, finally gives in too, making there be hardly any debate and regulations on it in 2024 and beyond in the global community.
7.	Since the world has 8 billion people and that Europe despises genetic engineering, a problem might be that Europe convinces the rest of the world to give it up as well, making a lack of food in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

STEP 1. Identify Challenges (continued)

Since Europe encourages and uses the natural selection and growing of seeds and that America uses 85% genetically engineered food, a problem might be that during a storm these seeds blow over, like in Hurricane Andrew, and milk with each other making an unstopable “super weed” in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

Since Europe is one of the few opposing countries to genetic engineering, a problem might be that without letting in or growing genetically engineered food will starve and deprive it of food in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

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Since in many countries there has been an explosion of manipulating the genomes of plants, a problem might be that this scientific experiment gets into the wrong hands and use it to cause trouble in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

STEP 2. Select an Underlying Problem

Based on the challenges you listed in Step 1, identify a challenge of major importance. Write your Underlying Problem in question form. Include a condition phrase and the words, "in what ways might we … ?" or "how might we … ?" Your problem should clearly explain what you want to do and the reason it should be done. Limit your work to this booklet. No extra pages are scored!

To show a connection between Steps 1 and 2, in the space below, identify by number the Step 1 challenge(s) from which your Underlying Problem was developed. (This is optional and is not scored.)

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I think this is important because if some both genetically and not genetically modified plants mix,

a “super weed” may be created that, for example, resists pesticides and cannot be stopped

and world cause much damage to other plant life in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

In what ways might we reduce the chances of mixing genetically and not genetically

engineered crops in order to lower the risk of creating a “superweed” in 2024 and beyond in

the global community?

STEP 3. Produce Solution Ideas

Produce as many solution ideas as you can to your Underlying Problem. Choose your 10 most promising solution ideas and write them in the space provided. Write each solution idea in a sentence statement that describes who will carry out what action, how it will be done, why it will solve the problem and where and when the solution will take place. All of your work must be contained in this booklet; if necessary, use the reverse side of a page. No extra pages are scored!

1.
	Skreen it in a pool screen making co., will make a new screen that can be put over crops. This will cover crops, reducing the risk of seeds blowing away and mixing in 2024 and beyond.
2.
	Poy Zen chemicals, owner of Poy-sen-chemz co., will create a plant killer that instantly kill ANY plant it touches, but nothing else, and can be used to set boundaries for crops which won’t grow past it. This will create a way to prevent the mix of plants in 2024 and beyond in the global community.
3.
	By-O-Tek Co. will create and genetically modify crops that can be set and that controls where they can and can’t grow. This will reduce the risk of plant mixing in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

STEP 3. Produce Solution Ideas (continued)

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	Old McDonald’s holographic great-grandson will create a line of $2.00 green houses in which to grow crops in, but which has no way for them to get out. This will give places for crops to grow without wisking, mixing them in 2024 and beyond in the global community.
5.
	Potion Concotion, owner of Poe-shon in Moe-shon Inc., will make a liquid that, when poured over a plant, stops it form creating polyn, which could mix and spread.
6.
	Walls ‘R Us will create an invisible, unfeelable plant proof wall that keeps crops in them, seeds and all. This will prevent the mixing of seeds, reducing the risk of a superweed in 2024 and beyound in the global community.
7.
	Detekdiv Inc. will create a “mix breed” plant detector and preventor, that is liquid and is injectable into the plant and doesn’t lit it mix with any other plant. This will reduce the risk of a “mix breed” “super weed” in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

STEP 3. Produce Solution Ideas (continued))

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	Garfield the cats computer animation grand-daughter, Garfett, will merge with Bill Gate’s grandson to create a computer that automatically makes any plant you want in 10 seconds for $100. This will reduce the risk of mixing genetically and not genetically engineered foods in 2004 and beyond by making no need for either in the global community.
9.
	Con Troll, a grandson of the remote control’s inventor, will create a microscopic clip that is stuck to each plant. This clip will allow the plant and its seedlings to be controlled where they grow and mix with what in 2024 and beyond. This will reduce the risk of a “super weed” in 2024 and beyond in the global community.
10.
	Austin Powers’s Australian born daughter Aussie will create a genetically modified plant that, with voice recognition, can be told where it’s allowed to grow and who to mix with. This will reduce the mix of genetically and not genetically modified plants, in turn reducing the risk of a super weed in 2024 and beyond in the global community.

STEP 4. Select Criteria

Select the most promising solution ideas from Step 3. Generate criteria to help you decide which solution idea does the best job of solving your Underlying Problem. Select the five criteria you think are the most important for measuring your solution ideas and write them in the space provided. Each criterion should have a different focus. Limit your work to this booklet; use the reverse side of a page if necessary. No extra pages are scored!

1.
	Which solution will cause the least harm to the environment?
2.
	Which solution will mostly reduce the risk of a “super weed” or other problem to plants?
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	Which solution will be the most cost effective to everyone?
4.
	Which solution will be the easiest to implicate?
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	Which solution will be the most time effective?

STEP 5. Apply Criteria

From your list of solution ideas, select the 5 ideas that you think have the most potential. Use each criterion to compare/rank the solutions on a scale from 1 (poorest) to 5 (best). Enter the numbers in the appropriate columns. Add the ranks given to each solution, and enter the sum in the appropriate TOTAL column.

Step 3 Sol’n #	Solution Ideas	Criteria 1 2 3 4 5					Total
# 7	Injection	3	4	4	4	5	20
# 5	Potion	1	2	2	5	1	11
# 4	Old McDonalds’ grandson	5	3	5	2	2	17
# 3	By-O-tek	2	5	3	1	4	15
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