Rachel's problem-sovling prowess

Rachel is an enrichment class after school called "Thinking Outside the Box." The problem that they were given to start brainstorming solutions for was, you're out on the lake and you lose your favorite stuffed animal in the lake. The sign at the edge of the lake says, "No swimming." So the kids had to brainstorm ideas about how to get the stuffed animal back.

Rachel's idea was get your parents to take you on a vacation to the sea and collect a whole bunch of fish, and train the fish to retrieve your stuffed animal, and put them in the lake, and they would get your stuffed animal.

Then the teacher gave a different wrinkle: Imagine that same challenge, but you can have any superpower you want. What would it be and how would you use it to get the stuffed animal back?

And Rachel said her superpower would be the power to change the words on the sign to say, "Yes, swimming!" so you could go get your stuffed animal.

At the end of class, she was one of three kids to get the "creative thinking" certificate. "This certifies that Rachel has won an award for working the best with his/her team mates and showing an extraordinary participation and creativity during today's Thinking Outside of the Box brainstorming session. Cheers, keep Thinking Outside of the Box!"

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