NFTE’s World Series of Innovation (WSI) celebrates global youth entrepreneurship and the power of innovative ideas.
About NFTE
We believe entrepreneurial mindset is the key to success in business and in life.
NFTE partners with thousands of schools, youth development organizations and community groups in communities across the U.S. and abroad to offer a unique set of high-impact entrepreneurship education programs based on our innovative, experiential curriculum, which integrates lean startup tools and methodologies with project-based learning. Since our founding, we've served well over a million students.
Learn how to recognize opportunities and use your creativity to solve problems.
Every fall, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) launches a new set of challenges in the NFTE World Series of Innovation (WSI). We invite you to think big and submit your ideas to advance the UN Global Goals. The best entries win cash prizes and anyone between the ages of 5 and 24 is eligible to enter.
Grow your mindset
Practice design thinking and develop your entrepreneurial mindset.
Research shows that developing the entrepreneurial mindset — a set of skills including initiative, flexibility, creativity, opportunity recognition, future orientation, problem solving, and critical thinking — uniquely prepares young people for lifelong success.
Together, the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals form a roadmap to a better future. They not only call for us to protect the planet, but also to ensure that all people enjoy equality, prosperity, peace, and justice.
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
SDG 3Good health and wellbeing
Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
SDG 4Quality education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
SDG 5Gender equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
SDG 6Clean water and sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
SDG 7Affordable and clean energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
SDG 8Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
SDG 9Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
SDG 10Reduce Inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries
SDG 11Sustainable cities and communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
SDG 12Responsible consumption and production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
SDG 13Climate action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG 14Life below water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
SDG 15Life on land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDG 16Peace, justice and strong institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
SDG 17Partnerships for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
SDG 1No poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
SDG 2Zero hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
SDG 3Good health and wellbeing
Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
SDG 4Quality education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
SDG 5Gender equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
SDG 6Clean water and sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
SDG 7Affordable and clean energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
SDG 8Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
SDG 9Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
SDG 10Reduce Inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries
SDG 11Sustainable cities and communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
SDG 12Responsible consumption and production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
SDG 13Climate action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG 14Life below water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
SDG 15Life on land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDG 16Peace, justice and strong institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
SDG 17Partnerships for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
SDG 1No poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
SDG 2Zero hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
SDG 3Good health and wellbeing
Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
SDG 4Quality education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
SDG 5Gender equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
SDG 6Clean water and sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
SDG 7Affordable and clean energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
SDG 8Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
SDG 9Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
SDG 10Reduce Inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries
SDG 11Sustainable cities and communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
SDG 12Responsible consumption and production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
SDG 13Climate action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG 14Life below water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
SDG 15Life on land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDG 16Peace, justice and strong institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
SDG 17Partnerships for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
