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The Benefits and Rationale of NIFT

Imagine a world where your students take the lead in innovating solutions, where collab-
oration raises the level of their work from good to exceptional, and where students are
celebrated, not for their scores alone, but for their societal impact. The National Innovation
Field Trips (NIFTs) are experiential world-learning at their very best, offering reimagined
methods 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 around the world. Designed based on the proven model of the Global
Innovation Field Trip, NIFTs allow Innovation World to scale the platform and expand the
celebration across all nations, becoming invaluable as a leading 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 communica-
tions, develop community and collaboration among students, and enable their students to
express their ideas, actions, and accomplishments in their own 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 possibility 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 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. IFIA Magazine Septeber 2023
Far-sighted companies looking for ways to support their country’s educational systems to
develop the innovation mindset and be publicly aligned with this important goal can gain
this recognition by helping to support student innovators at a national level NIFT.

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