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“Buy a Bottle… Save a Bee.” Meet Mikalia! At the age of four, Mikalia Umer combined her newfound fascination of bees (after being stung twice in the same week) with her grandmother’s flaxseed lemonade recipe to start Me & the Bees Lemonade. Not only has she created a social enterprise that uses local honey to […]
Startup Skool’s Program Manager, managing the Centre for Digital Media camps applies her love of running to her life, which allows her to constantly move from one experience to another (without breaking a sweat!). Her studies began at Western University in London, ON where she is currently studying Health Sciences for the first two years […]
Startup Skool campers at the Centre for Digital Media will no doubt be asking Program Leader Kyle for karate lessons during lunch hour. He has his black belt and has competed on both the British Columbia provincial and Canadian national teams. Kyle, who calls West Vancouver home, has just finished his second year in Commerce […]
Startup Skool campers are always encouraged to spend lunch hour being active and soaking up the sunshine. What better way to do that than starting a game of soccer? Surely Miranda, our Program Leader at UBC, will be ready with a ball in hand. Miranda has completed three years of her Bachelor of Commerce degree […]
If a game were to represent the life of Startup Skool’s Head Technical Leader, Kelvin, it would be Civilization. It involves starting with a simple colony and then building on what you have in order to create an empire. It challenges you to look at the world in different ways, something that comes naturally to […]
Startup Skool’s Program Manager, running the University of British Columbia camps, is one adventurous spirit. Before entering the British Columbia Institute of Technology to earn her Bachelor of Business Administration, Heather traveled the world working as a fashion model. She’ll now be changing gears and serving as a role model to any Startup Skool participant […]
Do you know why you do what you do? Do you know why you get your family out of bed every single day and go about your combined routine of school, work, sports, and whatever else it is that you do? Far too many people spend their entire lives unable to provide a convincing answer […]
A few weekends ago (February 4 – 5), we ran a 2-day intensive workshop for ambitious teens to learn how to create, launch, and run their own online t-shirt business! Our goal with the workshop was to give these kids the tangible skills and the know-how they need to get an e-commerce business started from […]
At Startup Skool, we often define an entrepreneur as ‘a person who seeks to profitably solve a problem the world has by operating their own business.’ We are fortunate that in today’s world, anyone with enough passion and drive can dive headfirst into entrepreneurship – some with fewer obstacles than others. Sadly, this opportunity wasn’t […]