Many teens have keen insights about issues they face each day, but they think no one is interested in listening to them. We listen and we give teens a means for their voices to be heard. A Teen Think Tank provides an anonymous forum for teens to combine their creative brainpower and heartpower to address various youth concerns.
Collectively, teens tackle some of the most challenging issues of the day, all without fear of ridicule or peer pressure. Using GroupSystems software for collaboration and group decision-making, the teen participants work together to brainstorm, organize, evaluate, and prioritize ideas.
The dramatic results of these Think Tanks are compiled into reports and presented to school administrators and public officials for potential action and implementation. The same process and methodology may also be used to address many other issues and concerns facing America's youth.
In a think tank setting, diverse groups of teenagers work together, collaboratively and anonymously, under the direction of an expert facilitator, to identify the causes of violence and to develop innovative ways to prevent violent behavior among youth.
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GroupSystems Corporation, the world’s leader in team collaborative thinking software, reshapes how organizations collaborate and make decisions – from live meetings to anywhere in the world at anytime. GroupSystems (formerly known as Ventana Corporation) transforms traditional team collaboration into efficient, productive events by offering an effective means of accelerating any problem-solving and decision-making process. Read more about GroupSystems here.
Computer Scientist Gives Teens a Voice to End Violence.
Read about Brice Marsh, the founder and executive director of Teen Think Tanks of America, Inc.<<click here>>
TTT was invited to provide electronic facilitation for the National Youth Summit on Preventing Violence in Washington, DC (2002). The summit was hosted by the National Crime Prevention Council ... and McGruff, the Crime Dog, of course.
See the findings of the McGruff Ambassadors See photos from Summit
How a computer scientist uses the magic of electronic brainstorming and collaborative technology to release, harness, and leverage the brainpower of American teenagers to learn why kids are killing kids and to stop the violence in our schools.
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