11 Year Old Creates Illuminated Nut Driver…

2002 Young Entrepreneur Award.pdf

• Working on a "fix it" project with her dad holding the flashlight

• Designs nut driver with a hollow tupe to shine a light through

• Sell rights to a Chinese manufacturer

Quiz Control--team project… 

Quiz Controls Team.pdf

• Look for opportunities right in your own world
• Is a great example of teen lead-users
• Sold 700 units at $100,000+

8th Grade Inventor…

 Wheelchair Backpack

• Chandler's friend is in a wheelchair
• Chandler talks to him about what he needs
• Chandler designs a solution: a distinctive backpack

Motorola Camp…

 Motorola

• Summer Corporate Day Camp for teens
• Employees children
• Engaged as a team
• Problem: "How does Motorola creatively finance satellites in the 21st century?"

Girl Power…

girlpower.pdf

• Fourteen year old teen starts a design business
• Lives in Monroe, Michigan with no relatives in the internet business
• Two years later she is generating $70,000 per month in income
• She is now in court to be emancipated so that she can own and control her company

Great Lakes Motor Works… 

  Great Lakes Motor Works.pdf 

• Champion must have a passion
• High value added product
• National or international market
• 2007: $2.5 million in sales and 17+ employees