A progressive Skills-to-Impact development programme by HIS Network Global for young people aged 6–17.
Through financial literacy, character development, practical LifeSkills, creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation and real-world leadership experiences, participants progress from discovering who they are to creating value, solving problems, leading projects and making a positive impact.
The iNxtGen Makers Program is HIS Network Global’s progressive kid-to-youth development pathway, designed to prepare future leaders with the practical capabilities, character and experiences they need for the future.
Through age-appropriate experiences, participants learn to understand themselves and money, build strong values, develop practical LifeSkills, create products and solutions, experience entrepreneurship, lead real projects and contribute back to their communities.
Every young person has unique value and potential waiting to be discovered.
The programme grows with each participant, moving from self-discovery to real-world leadership.
Focuses on building curiosity, social basics, and foundational motor and cognitive skills.
Guided exposure to life skills; make or perform something simple.
Experience running a guided mini booth or showcase with adult support.
Focuses on discovering identity; critical thinking; understanding peer dynamics.
Develop creativity; Apply one or more learned life skills to create a product/service.
Gain leadership skill; Experience a real world marketing & sales showcase.
Focuses on preparing young teens with an entrepreneurial mindset for a tech-driven world. Expand your creative horizons.
Apply one or more life skills to solve a problem or need.
Leadership and entrepreneurship experience; Showcase a social-impact project.
Focuses on professional skills, independence, and career or tertiary education pathways.
Explore brand new paths and ideas. Build an advanced solution, venture, event or portfolio using specialized life skills.
Inspiring and rallying people around a shared vision. Lead teams; Deliver a capstone and support younger learners.
We develop the capabilities, character and evidence young people need to create value and lead with purpose.
Understand personal strengths, interests, values and potential.
Understand earning, spending, saving and responsible financial decisions.
Build integrity, responsibility, resilience, empathy and discipline.
Develop practical, creative, technological, communication and artisanal capabilities.
Turn ideas and skills into something valuable.
Understand customers, cost, pricing, value creation and business.
Identify problems and develop practical solutions.
Communicate, collaborate, make decisions and lead others.
Use personal success to create opportunities for others.
Build evidence and experience for education, entrepreneurship and career pathways.
Every experience moves participants forward through one connected development journey.
Identify strengths, interests, values and potential while learning the value of money and resources.
Develop integrity, financial understanding and responsible decision-making through activities and games.
Develop practical LifeSkills and turn ideas into products, services, performances, content, prototypes or solutions.
Apply learning through markets, showcases, businesses, hackathons, events and community projects.
Use profit, products, skills or services to support another learning opportunity and create community impact.
Capture skills, character, experience and outcomes to guide the participant’s next opportunity.
Participants discover practical capabilities across five connected pathways.
Drama & Speech · Public Speaking · Catwalk & Modelling
AI & Coding · Drone · 3D Design & Printing
Photography · Podcast · Content Creation
Jewellery & Fashion · Crochet · Handmade Creative Art · Upcycling
Terrarium · Baking · Cooking · Pottery · Barista
Each stage deepens the challenge, responsibility and real-world experience.
Younger children discover personal strengths, money, character, creativity and practical LifeSkills through playful experiences.
Discover interests, strengths and the value of money through games.
Practise spending, saving, giving, integrity and caring.
Learn one beginner LifeSkill and make something.
Present or sell at a Mini Market.
Participate in a simple giving-back decision.
Identify interests for the next LifeSkill experience.
Integrity · Responsibility · Kindness · Confidence · Teamwork · Gratitude
Mini Market / Mini Showcase
Children understand that a skill can become a product, service or opportunity.
Identify strengths, interests and entrepreneurial potential.
Learn money, budgeting, saving, integrity and wise decisions.
Develop a product or service through a chosen LifeSkill.
Build and operate a mini business.
Allocate an agreed portion toward giving back.
Build evidence and progress toward iInnovator.
Integrity · Responsibility · Creativity · Resilience · Empathy · Courage · Teamwork
Skills-to-Impact Marketplace
Participants use LifeSkills, technology, entrepreneurship and creativity to respond to real customer or community needs.
Identify strengths, purpose and community issues.
Study enterprise finance, ethics, research and responsible decisions.
Design solutions and prototypes.
Run a hackathon, challenge or social enterprise.
Create measurable community outcomes.
Develop an impact portfolio and progress to iLeader.
Innovation · Initiative · Empathy · Resilience · Collaboration · Ownership · Ethical Decision-Making
Hackathon / Innovation Challenge / Social Enterprise / Community Project
Young people take ownership of real projects, engage stakeholders and build credible evidence for their future.
Identify future direction, strengths and leadership potential.
Build financial capability, ethics, professionalism and leadership.
Design a venture, project, event or solution.
Execute a real project and manage people and resources.
Measure results and mentor younger participants.
Build a portfolio and move into future HIS or industry pathways.
Leadership · Integrity · Accountability · Professionalism · Strategic Thinking · Resilience · Service
Capstone Project / Business Venture / Event / Corporate Challenge / Community Initiative
Technical capability matters, but how participants use it matters just as much.
Be honest · Handle money honestly · Make ethical choices · Lead ethically
Care for materials · Own a role · Own project outcomes · Be accountable for a team
Try again · Improve after feedback · Overcome challenges · Lead through setbacks
Explore ideas · Create products · Innovate solutions · Develop strategies
Be kind · Understand customers · Understand communities · Lead inclusively
Share · Collaborate · Coordinate · Lead teams
Speak · Pitch and sell · Present ideas · Make decisions
Help others · Give back · Create impact · Lead impact
Young people learn that skills, resources and success can also create opportunities for others.
Build a practical capability through guided experience.
Turn a new skill into a product, service, performance or solution.
Run a business, booth, event or project.
Create revenue, useful products, services or social value.
Give through profit, product, skill or service.
Support another learning opportunity. Learn One. Help One Learn.
Progress is captured across the whole journey, not only at the final outcome.
LifeSkills and practical capabilities demonstrated.
Workshops, projects, markets, events and challenges.
Responsibility, teamwork, confidence and leadership.
Products, services, prototypes and solutions.
Costing, pricing, revenue and business experience.
Giving, beneficiaries, mentoring and community outcomes.
Strengths identified and recommended next opportunities.
Flexible formats are available for kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, international schools, learning centres, homeschool communities and youth organisations.
Weekly structured Skills-to-Impact learning.
An intensive multi-skill experience.
An individual practical skill experience.
Create, brand, price, pitch and sell.
AI, coding, drone, 3D and problem-solving.
Real selling and customer interaction.
Project leadership and mentoring.
Corporate-sponsored education and community access.
Learners progress instead of attending disconnected workshops.
Access a broad range of skill trainers and programmes.
Develop financial, creative, digital, entrepreneurial and leadership capability.
Learners create, sell, pitch, organise and lead.
Build contribution and social responsibility into every stage.
Produce measurable learner and community outcomes.
A connected ecosystem brings learning, industry, real-world experience and progression together.
School, education-centre, community and sponsored cohort packages are available. Programme fees vary by LifeSkills, materials, duration and delivery requirements.
Explore the energy, creativity and confidence young people bring to every iNxtGen Makers experience.
From discovering their strengths at age 6 to leading real-world projects at age 17, iNxtGen Makers helps young people build the skills, character and experiences needed to shape tomorrow's world.