11-Year-Old Lands Million Dollar Deal With Whole Foods
11-year-old Mikaila Ulmer is doing more than running on the playground! She just landed a million-dollar deal with Whole Foods, selling her all natural lemonade!
Mikaila won $60,000 for her BeeSweet lemonade business on the TV show “Shark Tank” last year and since then has made major moves. She, along with her mother, used her fear of bees for a research assignment about the endangered status of bees and decided to use honey as sweetener for the lemonade instead of sugar. Mikaila wants to help save the bees and uses some of her profits to help organisations with the same goal as her, she told NBCBLK.
Her lemonade is made from her grandma’s recipe and will be sold at 55 Whole Foods stores, according to NBC. On top of her distribution deal with Whole Foods, she also has one with United Natural Foods and is still a student. She also leads workshops regarding saving the bees and has plans to travel to South Africa to talk to young girls about entrepreneurship.
She has visited the White House and met the President and First Lady at the Kids’ State Dinner and her mother says she is hardworking and kind, which she feels is more important than business.
We are always proud of youth doing more to give back! We can’t wait to try little Mikaila’s BeeSweet Lemonade!
13 Year Old Nigerian Student Breaks Record
Right here in Nigeria, a 13 year old Nigerian student Chimelum Tasi-Amadi has set a new academic record after writing the Cambridge Checkpoint Examination.
According to a statement from his school, the City of Knowledge Academy located in Ijebu Ode area of Ogun State, his result has landed him a placement at Phillips Academy Exeter USA (a world renowned Prep School that prepares students almost exclusively for the IVY League Universities in the USA).
In a statement released by Tasi-Amadi’s school, the academic performance of the year nine student wasn’t totally strange as he had earlier dazzled keen watchers of educational terrain with award-winning performances at both the American Mathematical Competition and the Cowbell Mathematics Competition.
The School was founded by Mrs Mosun Belo-Olusoga, an Economics graduate of the University of Ibadan, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and an alumnus of Harvard Business School, USA, the school boasts of achieving more in the educational sector.
Source: The Shade Room, Pulse
