Brothers Sidharth and Rohit Srinivasan realized that schools in India do not have an affordable way of teaching stem and robotics, so they designed a kit that, instead of using expensive computers, internet, and programs, uses cheap motors, lights, and other mechanical and electric components, intended to be used various bits and pieces of cardboard, rubber bands, popsicle sticks and other things normally considered trash. This allows students to be creative with the things that they find around them, allowing creation of anything that the child can imagine, without having to worry about running out of pieces, as all they have to do is look around the room for new parts.

Matthew Mullenwog created WordPress in hopes of changing the way individuals could publish content on the web. He began the project at 19 years old, 20 years ago. The service quickly outpaced its competition in usage and development, with over 900,000 downloads in the first year of its release. He later founded the company Automattic to continue the development of WordPress. By 2009, WordPress even outgrew Google’s blogging software and in 2011 the system was thought to power around 12% of the entire internet, which has now increased to around 43%. Even now with over 1900 employees, Mullenwog still has a large contribution to its effort.

Pat Brown discovered a creative way to make some extra cash during college, renting himself and other workers out as “handymen” to provide essentially any service a customer would require. This business he called Rent Sons functions under the simple mantra “Any job, One hourly rate” and, now renamed to SURV offers services such as Moving assistance, yard work, house painting, cleaning, as well as other odd jobs. They now function in several cities across the east coast, they are willing to do pretty much any job with the only criteria being that it must be local, take no more than two days, and not require any expert ability.

https://wesurv.com

Gimkit is a mobile app based educational game system designed to be an easy, simple way to make learning fun in schools. It was created when founder Josh Feinsilber realized that he wanted to play more entertaining learning games beyond the simple quiz format. He started with a simple game and later expanded to several different modes as well as recently adding a game creator system. These learning games range from cooperative to competitive between students They state that their mission is to “create memorable learning experiences”

Check out Gimkit here:

https://www.gimkit.com

Tyler McNaney dropped out of Vermont Technical College at 25 to Pursue his Project Filabot. Filabot is a series of machines that convert recyclable discarded plastic into usable plastic pellets for 3D printing. Now that his company has 8 workers he is still very Integrated into the company’s operations, simultaneously spearheading company endeavors and designing new products. The company develops a series of machines that perform every task in the process of turning plastic trash into pellets, then into 1.75mm filament for standard 3D printing use.