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Fundraisers to Support Research on Creativity and ADHD
A group in Canada, lead by Marko Ferek, is raising money to support research by the Torrance Center ™ on the relationship between creativity and ADHD and the effects of medications on creativity. Mr. Ferek is the founder of the “Buđenje” – Organization for understanding ADHD in Zagreb, Croatia. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker on ADHD and creativity and has made guest appearances on many national TV and radio shows as well as in magazines and newspapers. His book, Hyperactive Dreamers, has been published in three languages, and a portion of the book sales are going to the Torrance Center ™ for this research. Hyperactive Dreamers is also the name of his website.
If you would like to purchase the book or read more about the work of this group, please go to http://www.hyperactivedreamers.com/.
Or, if you are anywhere near Toronto, you are invited you to join the group for:
Book signing party
“Hyperactive dreamers – better, worse, different” by Marko Ferek
and presenting the
“Fundraising project for researching the link between creativity and ADHD”
will take place on
April 25th 2012 from 7 to 8.30 pm
in Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, 115 Simpson Avenue, M4K 1A1
Entrance: Free
Phone: 647 969 7453 email: hdreamers@gmail.com; morediversity@gmail.com
If you would like to donate to this cause, go to http://morediversity.org/donate.php
And click the DONATE NOW button.
2012 Torrance Lecture: The Creativity Crisis
Dr. Kyung Hee Kim
Wednesday, April 18, Room S151, Lamar Dodd School of Art
5:30 pm Coffee……..6:00 – 7:00 pm Lecture…….7:00 – 7:30pm Reception
The June 19, 2011 issue of Newsweek magazine dropped a bomb with a cover story about the decline of creativity in America. Based on the research of Dr. Kyung Hee Kim, this story was part of the awakening in this country to something that much of rest of the world has realized and acted upon—the importance of creativity to a nation’s well-being and economic growth. Now, Massachusetts, California, and Oklahoma are planning to use indexes to measure creativity in the schools. But, are more assessments key to increasing creativity? Is there really a creativity crisis? Dr. Kim (Ph.D., UGA, 2004) is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the College of William and Mary. She has discussed her research with numerous news outlets including The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Metro World News (England). Superinteressante (Brazil), Periodista La Tercera (Chile), Korrespondent (Ukraine), the Globe and Mail (Canada), and others.
Georgia Future Problem Solving Program Winners Will Go To The International Bowl
Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 27, 2012, the state competition for the Future Problem Solving Program was held at the Classic Center in Athens, GA. Students in grades 4-12 competed from schools throughout Georgia in the following events: Scenarios, Team Problem Solving, Individual Problem Solving, Team Action Plan, and Team Presentation of Action Plan. First, second, and third place winners were named in each event according to the division: Juniors in grades 4-6; Intermediate in grades 7-9; and Seniors in grades 10-12. In addition, two coaches, a novice coach and a coach of the year, were honored. The top students in each event are invited to compete in the International Bowl June 7 – 10 at Indiana University, hosted by Indiana FPS.
The Future Problem Solving Program, started by Paul and Pansy Torrance in Athens, GA in 1974, is now an international program involving thousands of students annually from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, and the United States. In 2011, Turkey and India were welcomed as new mentored areas.
For more information on the Georgia Future Problem Solving Program, go to http://www.gafpsp.org/ For more information about the Future Problem Solving Program International go to http://www.fpspi.org/
Click here for the winning schools in each event and for each division.
