Mary de Wysocki

Eighth grade social studies teacher Edgar Ochoa was excited to implement the Global Problem Solvers: The Series (GPS: The Series) supplemental curriculum, but he wasn’t entirely sure how his students were going to react.

Cisco is committed to positively impacting 1 billion people by 2025. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is the initiative that inspires and empowers a new generation of problem solvers in today's thriving digital economy, by working on technologies that will benefit the world.

In our rapidly changing, hyper-connected world, we believe developing a generation of global problem solvers is critical to discovering the solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.

On October 15, 2019, Cisco launched its fourth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, a worldwide search for the next technology startup greatly impacting people, society or the planet.

“When I first gave them the assignment, I got a lot of ‘I can’t.’ So I asked them to identify ways they could make a dent in the problem, explaining if they can do it, then someone else can do it too,” Mr. Miller explained. “I think that’s the great thing about GPS. It gets kids thinking and excited about what they can do.”

Cisco’s Global Problem Solvers: The Series program aims to instill the tenets of social entrepreneurship and responsible use of technology into middle schools. The animated series follows a team of teenage superheroes who work together to solve social problems around the world.

The Flux team won US$25,000 in the 2018 Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge and is working to solve the water crisis in Kenya.

Learn how you can snag up to $100,000 from Cisco by entering the 2019 Global Problem Solver Challenge.

Embracing the natural problem solver in all of us, how can we create a culture of innovation that can change the world?