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The Benefits and Rationale of NIFT Imagine a
world where your students take the lead in in-
novating solutions, where collaboration raises
the level of their work from good to excep-
tional, and where students are celebrated,
not for their scores alone, but for their so-
cietal impact. The National Innovation Field
Trips (NIFTs) are experiential world-learning
at their very best, offering reimagined meth-
ods of showcasing and recognizing student
innovators and educational programs that
support and inspire innovation. The format is
intentionally inclusive to allow students of all
ages, economic statuses, and any nationality to
participate and to encourage students to explore
commonalities, interests, and collaboration with their
contemporaries from around their nation and the world.
Designed based on the proven model of the Global Innova-
tion Field Trip, NIFTs allow Innovation World to scale the platform
and expand the celebration across all nations, becoming invaluable as a lead-
ing tool to reinvigorate the mission of parents, educators, and program leaders
around the world to prioritize youth innovation in all fields and career paths.
Educators have the unique opportunity to expand their student’s intercultural com-
munications, develop community and collaboration among students, and enable
their students to express their ideas, actions, and accomplishments in their voice,
on a national stage, and through GIFT’s global stage. NIFTs take students beyond
the classroom to encourage and inspire cross-border collaboration and the pos-
sibility of world learning through the GIFT. Both NIFTs and GIFT are opportunities
for innovative schools to showcase their use of experiential learning and global
competencies and to become role models for other institutions.
The National Innovation Field Trip (NIFT), run by NIFT Partners, is the gateway for
students to gain recognition throughout their country as well as special access to
GIFT. NIFT Partners will be a part of the largest effort to connect and celebrate
IFIA Magazine Septeber 2023 Far-sighted companies looking for ways to support their country’s educational
your country’s student innovators. Join us to learn how NIFT and GIFT can bring
your program to the 21st century on a national and world stage.

systems to develop the innovation mindset and be publicly aligned with this im-
portant goal can gain this recognition by helping to support student innovators at
a national level NIFT.

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