ISSUES #22: MAY 2016
SEEDS-
MAY 2016
FULL RIDE ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP ASHTON GABRIEL
to
Howard University!!
We are over the moon wtih excitement for our PBI family, Ashton Gabriel!! Ashton will graduate high school in a few weeks with a 4.0 GPA and has received an academic scholarship to attend Howard University in the fall!! How cool is THAT?? Ashton's folks are very proud and excited to see her growth as a student and a young lady.
Ashton has also had a stellar track and field career in high school and may continue to light up the blacktop throughout college. She concedes that her main focus will be on her studies but is looking forward to the challenge and the new experience.
Ashton is the teen face of our Black Chick Tees t-shirt line and represents the concept behind PBI very, very well. CONGRATULATIONS ASHTON!!!
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Mikaila Ulmer, 11-Year-Old Entrepreneur Gets Whole Foods to Stock Her Product
This 11-year-old girl has turned her grandmother’s flaxseed lemonade recipe into a national business—and she is donating ten percent of the proceeds to saving honey bees.
Mikaila Ulmer became an expert on bees after getting stung twice in a week. Her mother suggested that researching the insects might help conquer her overly-developed fear of them.
When she learned about the plight of bee populations that were dying from colony collapse disorder, and the danger
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were dying from colony collapse disorder, and the danger it posed to our food chain, Mikaila had to do something to help them.
She decided she could add local honey to her grandmother’s lemonade and sell it–with a portion of her profit going to international groups working to protect the pollinators.
Mikaila’s plans for a lemonade business called, “Me & The Bees” won her $60,000 in start-up money on the TV show “Shark Tank” and caught the attention of Whole Foods, which put her products on the shelves of 55 stores in the southern U.S.
The Austin, Texas sixth grader has been honored as one of the Top 10 Innovators of the Year by the music and technology festival South by Southwest and President Obama invited her to last year’s White House Kids’ State Dinner. She also leads workshops on how to save honey bees.
The pre-teen entrepreneur is busy working on new flavors — and new business ideas for her once-skeptical friends who now are eager to start their own businesses.
“At first, they didn’t believe me,” she told NBC News. “Now I am helping my friends start their own businesses.”
written by: Terry Turner for www.goodnewsnetwork.com
