Who Nominates and Why

The nation’s top educators nominating the nation’s top students

Over the last 25 years, more than 25,000 educators and mentors have partnered with Envision EMI to identify, select and nominate high-achieving students to attend our programs.

Nominators represent school districts from across the United States and around the world, with broad representation from both public and private institutions. Nominations are also made by alumni, clergy, coaches, club sponsors, Jr ROTC leaders and others involved in mentoring high-achievers.

Reasons for nominating students obviously vary, but many educators refer to at least one of the three student-learning outcomes on which our programs are centered as being central to their continuing nominations:

1. We offer diverse educational settings that involve students in engaging and innovative activities designed to introduce and apply both social and emotional competencies (e.g. self-awareness, emotion management, empathy, ability to form strong relationships) as well as character traits (e.g. honesty, integrity, gratitude, fairness, courage).
2. Our programs give young people the opportunity to take primary responsibility for developing creative approaches to complex, real-world problems. Our student-centered simulations and activities put participants in the "driver's seat," giving them a sense of ownership and independence as learners and problem solvers.
3. Through our program curricula — centered on leadership, government, leaders throughout history, medicine, law, crime scene investigation, diplomacy, intelligence, national security and social action — students develop the 21st century worldviews, skills and behaviors that parents and educators know they need and that college admissions advisors and employers increasingly seek. By cultivating these skills and understandings, students learn how to succeed and lead in an era of rapid change, innovation and global integration.

We hope you will join your colleagues now in nominating your best students to come together with their peers for an experience that will make them more confident, more aware and more excited than ever to be the leaders you know they have the ability to be.