Spark Creators

Why creativity, entrepreneurship, and problem-solving skills are important for kids to learn at an early age? For the first episode, we brought the co-creator of Entrepreneur Kid Li Zeng and Erica Swallow to share with you their journey with Entrepreneur Kid and their messages to all kids and parents.

Gabrielle Goodwin: Big Courage - How I went from a shy kid to a girl CEO. In this episode, we invited Gabrielle Goodwin, CEO of Gabby Bows to share with us about her journey of growth as a kid entrepreneur.

Jason Li: How Can YOU also be an entrepreneur? For the 3rd episode, we brought Jason Li, Founder and CEO of iReTron to share with us his story as a young social entrepreneur. He delivered some important lessons he learned as a kid, e.g. why is it OK to be different and why is it important to take risks at an early age. Enjoy the talk brough by Jason!

This episode we brought the Martinez brother who founded Are You Kidding Socks together when Sebastian was only 5 years old. Together with their Mom, Rachel Martinez, they want to share with us what it really means to start a business at a young age and why giving back is important.

This is a special episode about Spark. Why did we start making Spark and how Spark was made by Li and Yang. We summarized what we learned from the Entrepreneur Kid we featured from the previous series and also introduced what's coming for our next series "Study and Become". Stay Tuned for our next series!

For this episode, we invited Ayush Alag, a Senior high student at Harker School in San Jose, CA and also the Founder and CEO of Allergezy Inc. He came to share with us about How to solve a real-world problem as a high school student？Ayush faced allergy problem when he was young and he had to go through painful allergy test as a kid. So let’s see what Ayush decided to do and how did he start his research and also build a business from the problem he faced.

For this episode, we invited Tevin Ali, who is currently a senior graduate student from Johns Hopkins University to share with us his journey in education. Tevin was selected as a National Recipient of the Sallie Mae Bridging the Dream $20,000 Scholarship and also named the 2017 Student of the Year in the State of Florida. Before this however, Tevin has actually gone through the lowest point in his life. What was that experience like and how did he stand up from the low and shine bright as diamond now? Let's tune in what Tevin has to tell us.

For this episode, we invited Rhia Catapano, a PhD candidate in Behavioral Marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She will be sharing with us about her journey as the first generation college student and also about her research on happiness and meaning. How can we make our happiness last longer in our memory? Let's listen to Rhia and what she has to say on her research related to happiness and meaning.