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Teen Inventors & Designers

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

 

 
 

 

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