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Raelynn Heath-Rae’s Materials

Raelynn Heath is a young girl who started her own business making and designing jewelry. she started making jewelry when she was just 4 years old.

Young Raelynn started making her first jewelry with plastic beads and acrylic. as she got older, she continued to create new things like jewelry out of clay and recycled pieces of soda cans and chip bags, and even her old clothes she grew out of. With her mother’s assistance, she would give donate to members of her community to those specifically lost loved ones. she plans to expand into clothing design as well.

From Raelynn’s amazing product and mission, she made it onto the 1 Million Cups to spread awareness of her product and to explain her story. 1 Million Cups is a Weekly education program that gives experiential learning opportunities to entrepreneurs of today’s world.

I find young Raelynn’s so unique with her recycled jewelry and I’m behind impressed that she made such a popular project at such a young age. I think her story is motivation to us all to commit to our ideas and make them come true.

SAM NASSIF & OLIVER GREENWALD

Sam and Oliver are best friends and in 2015 when they were in the 5th grade, they realized a problem that they and all the other kids had, and they sought to resolve it. When Oliver and Sam had their reoccurring issue, they came up with the idea while eating ice cream off an ice cream cone. The issue they had was that if you eat your ice cream too slowly, it will drip everywhere. The invention they came up with to make this problem an issue of the past is the Dip Drop. The Drip Drop is an edible ring that you slide onto your ice cream cone to catch the melting ice cream that drips off the cone. Sam and Oliver put their invention to the test in a school invention competition. After winning second place in the competition, they requested a patent for their design and within 3 years they got one.

The product leads the boys to Shark Tank where they received $50,000 for 33% of the company from Barbara Corcoran. Although Barbra said she would only do this if they could get a licensing deal, which they couldn’t at the time.

Their products are now sold in various local ice cream shops, and with their statistics of future revenue will sky-rocket in the coming years.

Rachel Zietz: Gladiator Lacrosse

Rachel Zietz was a teenage entrepreneur who was an all-region lacrosse player from the state of Florida who received many accolades. While continuing to improve her skills she became fed up with the quality of her lacrosse rebounder(Bounce Back). She designed a new structure including a thicker net and stronger brace bars, which ultimately made a significantly more efficient product. This new design was adopted by the lacrosse community and became very popular. She made this product a reality and created the company, Gladiator Lacrosse. Her successful product led her to Shark Tank Season 7, Episode 28. Now her company is worth more than 5 million. Rachel even made Forbes Magazine’s, Shark Tank 7 of the Brightest and Youngest List. Through her huge success, she now has a flourishing business with various lacrosse-related products sold in lacrosse stores all across the county.

Hart Main’s Candles

Hart Main is a young entrepreneur at the age of 13. He came up with an amazing idea that branched from his sister selling female candles at school. The revolutionary idea was candles scented for men. Hart and his parents worked together to make this idea become reality. He started selling these ManCans candles at school and made a large profit. These manly candles were picked up by the Beaver Creek Candle Company in Lisbon, Ohio, and were massed produced and distributed in stores all across the country. hart is making an annual six figures yearly from this revolutionizing idea. Young Hart Main also gives back to the community by donating money to soup kitchens in many various local states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Michigan.