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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smallmedium;">Nick is a University Innovation Candidate and a senior studying History Education at Utah Valley University. Early on, Nick discovered his passions for an education enthusiast who loves to apply the principles of design and systems thinking to public policy, and these passions have led him education. In addition to be involved in a number of projects. When he was in teaching high school, he founded and ran a free academic credit recovery program at his school. After graduating and enrolling at Utah Valley, he he’s worked for the federal education grant GEAR UP where he tutored and mentored over on</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">e hundred low income high school students throughout Utah County. During the 2016 Legislative Session, he served as the legislative intern for the State Superintendent’s Office and the State Board of Education. In this capacity, he conducted policy analysis and research for the Board, tracked legislation for the impact projects with Utah’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Utah’s Governor’s Office, and designed the Legislative Session in Review presentation for education stakeholders throughout the stateUtah House of Representatives.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size: small;">In 2017 Nick was invited to shadow the education policy staff at the named a National Governor’s Association as a Program Scholar. During his time with the NGA, he conducted education policy research providing him with the NGA Center for Best Practices and gained a detailed knowledge of the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Common Core. Nick's current projects include competing in the Oxford Map the System Social Innovation Challenge, working as the Presidential Intern opportunity to the Vice President of University Relations at Utah Valley University, and serving as the Associate Director of the Center of Innovation in Education Task Force. In this capacity he is working closely work with members of the Utah State Office of Education, the Utah State Legislature, and Utah Education Policy Center to create a Utah Center of Innovation learn from NGA education policy staff in Education</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0Washington, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;">DC.</span></span><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>