CRISIS! (Creative Resolutions of Impending Situations with Intelligent Solutions) is Duke TIP’s first week-long day program for rising and current sixth graders in the 4th/5th Grade Talent Search or who are AIG identified. CRISIS! challenges students to build leadership and teamwork skills as they collaborate to solve a community crisis.

Do You Have What it Takes to Solve the 2012 Crisis?

A massive earthquake is predicted to strike your area in a matter of weeks, and the damage will be catastrophic. Now you and your peers must must join together on a research team to lead your community through this catastrophe, assuming the roles of scientists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians, economists, government officials, and industry professionals to solve a problem.*

Join your peers on a college campus to:

• Study under TIP’s expert instructors as they build students’ confidence to take on the problem, encourage students, and stretch their understanding.
• Gain access to cutting edge computer technology through the use of Google Chromebooks
• Utilize college science labs, library facilities, and instructional classrooms
• Role-play and problem solve your way through hands-on activities such as:
  • Developing emergency broadcast announcements
  • Simulating earthquakes
  • Exploring the opportunities and challenges of earthquakes on business and industry
  • Taking a role on a government task force
  • Designing structures that can withstand the quake
  • Creating and learning to interpret a seismograph
  • Planning wildlife rescue and containment

Outside of the research team students participate in leadership development and team-building activities. Interactive games, role-play, and student-centered activities are facilitated by experienced college students. At the end of the week, students participate in a symposium where they present their “plan” to their peers, helping to further develop their presentation skills. 

Program Basics

• Open to rising and current sixth grade participants in the Duke TIP 4th/5th Grade Talent Search or who are AIG identified.
• Dates and Locations
  • Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina
    
    • Session 1: June 18–22; Session 2: June 25–29
  • Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina
    • July 16–20

• Application deadline: April 27
• Time: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 5:15 p.m. (check-in between 7:15 and 8:00 a.m.)
• Cost: $900 (includes lunch and program supplies). Limited financial aid is available.

Admissions

• Apply online or
• Download an application and mail with the non-refundable $15 application fee.
• Participants may rank multiple research teams on their application, but will be placed on one team. Applications will be processed as received.
• Participants unable to be placed will be waitlisted. Duke TIP programs fill quickly, so apply early.
• Additional program information is emailed upon placement. 
• All participants must submit a completed medical form and be covered by health insurance.

Sample Daily Schedule

*About problem-based learning: Pioneered in medical school programs, problem-based learning actively engages students in constructing knowledge,

• allowing students to learn about a subject in the context of complex, multifaceted, and realistic problems.  
• leading students to see the relevance of learning to future roles,
• building motivation for learning, and
• developing responsible, professional attitudes to complex societal problems.