Our students have solved problems ranging from translating technical manuals from French to English into developing a warning device for approaching tornadoes. This paper is distributed once a week and provides an after-school job for students. It's a free paper, so there are no complaints from customers. But, regardless of the cash amount, it has been my observation that money soon takes second place to the personal satisfaction of having made a positive contribution to the business world. In other words, the success experienced is of more importance to the student than the money awarded .
Money simply becomes the means by which a student validates success.
Though a problem may be solved repeatedly, it remains in the problem list until the sponsoring business requests its withdrawal. The reason for this practice is that usually there are many possible solutions to a problem. After all, every product on the market is a solution to some kind of problem. Competing products, whether deodorants, automobiles, or dishwashers, each claim to be an improved solution to some problem. It Doesn't End Here.