Eco-Friendly Designer, Coder, CEO, is only 14

Saturday, March 1st, 2014 by Ravneet Kaur Sandhu
Eco-Friendly Designer, Coder, CEO, is only 14

Maya Shea Penn is a remarkable fourteen year-old girl from Atlanta, Georgia. Her already impressive feats include, but are not limited to, being a CEO of her own company, Maya Ideas, which she started at the age of eight and which only uses eco-friendly fabrics for her hand-crafted clothing designs, as well as building her […]

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Passion for Baking- Making Big Dough

Friday, June 21st, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Passion for Baking- Making Big Dough

Shea Gouldd, an 18-year-old, from Delray Beach, Florida, had an interest in cooking since before she can remember. According to her mother, as a toddler she preferred to watch cooking shows rather than cartoons. Her mother recalls that Shea always wanted to help make dinner. Her mom would let her snip green beans with scissors, […]

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Andrew Mupuya: 16 yr-old turns $13.40 into successful environmental company

Saturday, May 11th, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Andrew Mupuya: 16 yr-old turns $13.40 into successful environmental company

In 2008, the Ugandan government imposed a ban on the use of polythene plastic bags.  Sixteen year-old Andrew Mupuya perceived this  as a great market opportunity to start a business of environmentally friendly paper bags. He named his company Youth Entrepreneurial Link Investment (YELI).  At that time, his parents had become unemployed and the young […]

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