Planet Pointe

Planet Pointe is a non-profit organization that up-cycles ballet dancers’ “dead” pointe shoes. Dancers donate their old shoes and Planet Pointe creates pouches and bags out of the satin materials.  Planet Pointe has 15 drop-off locations at dance studios and stores around the United States. Dancers can donate their used pointe shoes at these locations,…

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Erin Smith – FacePrint

Erin Smith has had an interest in science for most of her life, an interest that led her to discover a way to spot Parkinson’s disease early. Smith was watching a Michael J. Fox video when she noticed his facial expression seemed emotionally distant, a condition known as facial masking, which can affect those with…

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Alexandra Debow – swsh

Alexandra Debow is a 25 year old who was born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong. Growing up she would move around a lot, which led her to say goodbye to many of her friends. She was inspired to start swsh (somewhere somehow) to connect people who are not in the same place anymore.…

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Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight – Stay ITK and Lash Next Door

Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight are identical twin sisters who have extraordinary entrepreneurship spirits. They were born in 1999 and have been successful YouTubers for nearly their entire lives. Growing up they appeared on their mom’s YouTube channel Cute Girl Hairstyles. They started their own channel in 2013 and have since grown to 7.35 million subscribers…

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Tiffany Zhong – Noplace

When iPods, YouTube, and music streaming services developed, society jumped for joy at the ease of portable, available music; the days of mixed tapes and bulky records were gone. Then a growing population of people started to long for the days when albums weren’t just downloads on a device, but rather tangible prizes, thus vinyl…

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Nadine Lauffer: Fearlessly Different Podcast

Nadine Lauffer is a 20-year-old entrepreneur, who started a podcast called “How to Homeschool in Highschool” when she was 17-years-old and a very passionate homeschooled junior in high school. When asked about what inspired her to start the podcast, she said, “The podcast started with just a prompt from my dad. He said that if…

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Deni Darenberg – dogAdvisor

Deni Darenberg is the founder and CEO of dogAdvisor, a website with advice for owners on how to care for their dogs. Founded by Darenberg when he was 16, dogAdvisor now has over 100 well written, easy to read articles to help dog owners. The company now also offers Max, an AI chatbot to help…

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Profitable Ideas In A Liquid Market

Some ideas come from the very place we least expect. Still others come from the very place we convince ourselves an idea cannot originate from. Swimply and its creator Bunim Laskin, age 28, are perfect examples. Many of us do not think there is a market for renting out personal pools and patios in your…

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Study Fetch the G.O.A.T. Idea of Esan Durrani

After being frustrated with an overwhelming amount of study material and no good tools to help organize it, he did not complain like many would.  Instead, Esan Durrani was spurred to action.   He co-founded and launched an Ai study tool called Study Fetch at the young age of twenty.  Study Fetch was not just your…

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Esan Durrani

In the rapidly evolving world of education and technology of today’s society, some young founders are transforming ideas into platforms that revolutionize how students learn. One such individual would be the young entrepreneur Esan Durrani, whose venture, StudyFetch, is making waves in the area of the edtech space. Esan Durrani is the co-founder of StudyFetch,…

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