Teens
11-year-old entrepreneur uses his business skills in Shallowater
This is a very inspiring story and exactly the kind of things that a parent can do to encourage entrepreneurial thinking and mindset in young children.
Eleven-year-old Levi Stinson is Shallowater’s youngest entrepreneur. He sells flavored ice treats in the summer, and he works just about every day from noon until 4 p.m. His business is [...]
Five things for employers to consider when hiring students
At this time of year, no doubt a large portion of employers will have a pit in their stomachs, knowing they may well have to take on a bunch of new graduates, who swagger around thinking they are God’s gift to their subject whilst thinking they have the relevant life experience to support themselves financially, [...]
Teens Are Building Their Own Job Engine
PERIODS of high unemployment tend to be particularly hard on teenagers, who wind up competing for jobs with more experienced, laid-off adults.
When Faith Borden, 16, of Metuchen, N.J., applied for a job in March to be a counselor at a summer day camp, she looked around and saw “all these 30- and 40-year-olds,” she [...]
Out-of-work student now a green’ entrepreneur
The work is a lot like being a chimney sweep – that is, the only chimney sweep in town, because it had never occurred to any of the neighbors to sweep their chimneys.
The business model invented by Chris King, 19, a freshman at USC living in Huntington Beach, Calif., with his parents during summer [...]
Young entrepreneur stitches together her own business
What began as a generous impulse to continue a family tradition ended up earning 12-year-old Alayna Kennedy a nice little pile of cash. It all started with hand-knitted dish cloths.
“My aunt’s mother-in-law used to make them for the family,” Alayna said. “She had passed away, and I wanted to do it for the family to [...]
Nine-year-old starts up web business
A nine-year-old girl has become India’s youngest CEO after starting up her own online design business.
Shreelaxmi Suresh received recognition for her work after she developed a website for Kerala Bar Council, located in the country’s south.
The youngster has displayed a keen interest in computers and art since she was in Kindergarten.
With a little assistance from [...]
Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic
PhDs have been searching for a solution to the plastic waste problem, and this 16 year old finds the answer.
It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last month’s May’s Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a [...]
