EP 07 13 minEaston LaChappelle, age 14 — Mancos, Colorado
The Kid Who Gave The World a Hand
He built a robotic hand out of LEGO, fishing line and tubing. Then he met a girl whose prosthetic arm cost $80,000.
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EP 06 20 minLouis Braille, age 15 — Coupvray & Paris, France
The Kid Who Re-Invented Reading
He lost his sight at three. By fifteen he had invented an entirely new way for the world to read.
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EP 05 18 minMo'ne Davis, age 13 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Kid Who Threw Like a Girl
She walked to the mound with millions of people watching. No girl had ever done what she was about to do next.
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Episode 8 · Mikaila Ulmer, age 4 — Austin, Texas
The Kid Who Put the Bee In Business
When Mikaila Ulmer was four, she was stung by a bee — and then stung again days later. Terrified, she started reading everything she could about bees, and discovered they were in trouble. With her great-grandmother's flaxseed lemonade recipe, a spoonful of local honey and a hand-painted stand in her front yard, she started selling lemonade to help save the bees. That stand became Me & the Bees Lemonade, a Shark Tank deal, and bottles on shelves in stores across America.
The Kid Who Put the Bee In Business
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- Started at
- Age 4
- Secret ingredient
- Flaxseed & local honey
- Shark Tank deal
- $60,000 (Daymond John)
- Company
- Me & the Bees Lemonade
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