Teen Think Tanks™ is an innovative process which engages teenagers in serious discussions about school violence and ways to solve the problem. Teenagers are a most neglected resource in the fight against school violence.  Educators, politicians,
policemen, psychologists, and sociologists, among others, are talking and talking about school violence.

Nobody except Teen Think Tanks of America, Inc.!  This non-profit organization is founded for the express purpose of giving a voice to the teens of America.  We're not talking about a staged press event where each student is given 3 minutes to make a
speech to the dignitaries present.

Teens spend 2-3 hours in intense, anonymous brainstorming sessions in front of personal computers using state-of-the-art
electronic meeting software. In these sessions, they combine their collective thinking and reach conclusions on the best ways to
deal with school violence with supporting action plans for political leaders and educational administrators to consider.

Every student participates because the sessions are anonymous.  Nobody is left out.  Hundreds of ideas are generated from which the teens select their best.  They then expand on those best ideas and develop action items to deal with or implement those best ideas.  A written report is produced that is distributed to community officials and is placed on this web site. You can review reports from several Teen Think Tanks.

Teen Think Tanks have been held in communities from coast to coast and more are planned.

Look at the rest of our web site to learn more about this innovative way of letting teens speak out on issues that are important to them and to all of us. Some key pages you might want to visit by clicking are these:
 

We want to give credit to the people that developed the state-of-the-art software used in the Teen Think Tanks.  We use GroupSystems WorkGroup Edition software for electronic meetings, produced by GroupSystems.Com of Tucson, AZ.

This software is widely used all around the world for a wide variety of projects.  Brice Marsh, the co-founder of Teen Think Tanks is a world-class facilitator at Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA in Huntsville, Alabama.  He uses the software almost daily to support the NASA mission.  It has been used in the Defense Department. It was used to plan both the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Groupsystems is also used at the Carter Collaboration Center in Atlanta that is founded and operated by former President Jimmy Carter.

You'll find the News Clips about the Teen Think Tank very interesting.  Then visit the rest of our site by clicking options from the pull down lists at the top or from the site map below.