When she was only 7 years old, Alina Morse was incredibly ambitious, but she had one major problem. Her mom would not let her eat candy whenever she wanted because it had so much sugar in it and it was bad for her teeth. When she turned 9, Morse began plant testing and researching to turn her sweet dream into a reality. She spent many months experimenting in her kitchen and also watched different candy-making videos on YouTube. Now, at 13, she’s the CEO of a $6 million candy company that she cleverly named Zollipops. The “z” comes from the calorie-free sugar substitute, xylitol, which is used in the lollipop base. The company, rooted in Morse’s hometown of Wolverine Lake, Michigan, produces the second best-selling lollipop on Amazon. The sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan and non-GMO candy beats out classics like Tootsie Pops, Dum Dums, and Charms Blow Pops. Morse also makes “Z
olli Drops” and “Zaffi Taffy” in seven flavors, including peppermint and pineapple. The eighth-grader also realizes her potential to make a change in the business world, and not just the candy world. Zollipops donates 10 percent of its profits to One Million Smiles, an oral health education program focused on fighting the tooth decay epidemic. Morse also calls herself “an advocate for young women in business” and became the youngest person ever to appear on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine in 2018.
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Sofia Overton starter her company, Wise Pocket Products, at 11 years old because
she wanted to make life easier for active kids and better for kids in need. One day, she saw her older cousin put her phone in her boot because she did not have any pockets in the leggings she was wearing. It was SO uncomfortable because it kept slipping down to my ankle. This gave her the idea for her first product, socks with a wise pocket! She created her first prototype by adding a wisely placed inside pocket at the top of the sock, and it worked great! But, she doesn’t plan on stopping there and she is currently developing leggings with a wise pocket too!
There are lots of active kids like Sofia that need a safe and stylish way to not only store their phones but other important items like epi-pens or inhalers! There are also so many kids across the country that are in need, with 627 kids considered homeless in her local school district alone! This is why her products give the buyers a chance to change the world one pair of socks at a time with us! So, they give a new pair of socks to a kid in need for every pair of socks sold! Wise Pocket Products believes that if you make sure a child has warm feet they will always have a warm heart knowing that their community cares for them.
If you’re from Pittsburgh there is a very high chance that you have seen someone walking around with the 412 brand on. 412 was birthed in late 2007 with the aim to create a brand that celebrated Pittsburgh’s emerging generation of cultural creators and professional athletes – all inspired by the ‘Burgh’s proud blue-collar heritage. Pittsburgh native brothers and cofounders, Christian and Aaron Kinkela thought that the best way to represent their hometown was to create a logo and brand steeped in the insight that “In Pittsburgh, Hometown is Hero.”Over the past five years, Shop412 has produced product collaborations and engaged launch events for Kris Letang (Pittsburgh Penguins), Ike Taylor (formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers), Lupe Fiasco (Grammy-winning recording artist), 13thWitness (one of Instagram’s most-followed photographers), Meghan Klingenberg (Women’s World Cup Champion), and Heinz (a Kraft company). New Era is the official headwear partner of 412. Shop412 is a proud partner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and most recently the Pittsburgh Penguins. Shop 412 is located in the heart of the South Side of Pittsburgh, in the SouthSide Works complex. The brand’s retail door opened in 2008 with the aim of offering Pittsburgh a diverse array of the best menswear from around the country as well as a home for the 412 brand.
Cory Nieves is the CEO of Mr.Cory’s Cookies. He is currently a high school sophomore. When Cory was a kid his mother did not allow him to have more than one cookie in a sitting because she said they were not healthy for them. Cory searched for a better option and tried a lot of cookies. He still couldn’t find a cookie that was healthy and tasted really good. So he set out to make his own cookies with his mother. They started out making cookies in his kitchen with a little bit of his mom’s help.
After selling a lot of his cookies with his mom Cory got noticed by a lot of people and needed to move to a commercial kitchen to keep up with the demand for his cookies. With all this publicity Cory appeared on MasterChef Junior, Shark Tank, and The Ellen Show.
Andrew Sutherland is the founder and CTO of Quizlet. He was having trouble learning French in high school and wanted better grades on his exams. As a high school sophomore in 2005 at the age of sixteen, Andrew created Quizlet and started acing his exams in French. He showed some of his friends what he had come up with and they started acing their exams as well. Andrew knew he had something great but his product needed more work. So he went to MIT to study computer science and fixed some of the kinks in his product and made it accessible to everyone on the internet. 
With that being said I can assume that most students with an internet connection have heard of and used Quizlet as their time as a student. It is a very helpful tool for studying tests and quizzes. Today 50 million students and teachers use it every month. The web-based study site and app have been shown to help students increase their school performance through over 300 million study sets. They have also raised as much as twenty million dollars in funding since 2018.
Sean Belnick was your average fourteen years old buying, trading, and selling Pokemon cards. Sean found out that he could sell his most expensive pokemon on eBay. This sparked Sean’s interest in selling things online, he started selling things online and started to make some good money for a fourteen-year-old. One summer Sean went to go work with his dad at his furniture store. When he was there he realized that he could sell furniture in a fast and easier way. When he discovered this he locked himself in his room for three days and made the website we know today as Bizchair.com. He did this with five hundred dollars for advertising and one hundred dollars for the website. He started by selling a handful of office chairs by drop-shipping them to his customers.
With his advertising, he started to gain more tracking as a company and when he was twenty years old he mad thirty-eight million in revenue. He has sold over twenty-five thousand office chairs to Microsoft, Google, and Abercrombie and Fitch. Sean was really a pioneer in the office chair industry. He was one of the first companies to sell large amounts of office chairs to consumers online. This made the buying process easier for companies by being able to buy large amounts of office chairs from one website. By doing this it streamlined the process of getting office chairs to the customers. Today Bizchairs has so many options for office chairs it appeals to a wide variety of people. Sean Belnick really changed the way people bought office chairs and has made some good money doing it.