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Cognetics is a program offered by the Education information Resource Center (EIRC) for creative students. In this program students learn how to design and produce creative solutions to a problem situation. Students work in teams while developing skills in resourcefulness, imagination, perception, risk taking, sequencing/organizing and working together as part of a team. The group meets weekly to develop these skills and to work toward solving the problem they have chosen. New problems are supplied by EIRC every year.
The problems usually require that students do some research on the development of a system or product/item. Cognetics emphasizes the processes involved in problem solving rather than the product. Consequently, students are asked to look at how and why things have changed and developed over time and are challenged to further improve upon those changes.
Students exhibit the work they have done at an exhibition site in the presence of other students and judges. They are encouraged to learn from each other's solutions rather than to compete with each other. The atmosphere is usually friendly and fun at these exhibitions.
Students are accepted for Cognetics if they posses the following characteristics: intelligence, imagination, task commitment, flexibility and risk taking. They are initially identified through teacher and student recommendations, grades and self identification.
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