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In honor of National Entrepreneurship Week, from February 18 to February 25, KWHS profiles Maddie Bradshaw, creator of the trendy Snap Cap bottle cap necklace and founder of M3 Girl Designs, LLC, whose total sales clock in at more than $5 million. Bradshaw talks about starting her business, her recent appearance on the TV show “Shark Tank” and why she feels her product won’t be a one-hit wonder.…

Snap Caps, Sharks and Sparks: Maddie Bradshaw, Teen Millionaire

A group of high school students had fun on a Saturday morning in February playing with a few sticks of spaghetti, some tape, string and a marshmallow. Discover what they learned about collaboration and why teamwork is so important to your future. …

Teamwork with a Marshmallow on Top

In late January 2012, high school students from across the country met up at MIT to see their knowledge and hard work in action – on the International Space Station – at the Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge. While programming robots was fun, the students were also learning what it takes to be successful in a high-tech career.…

Programming Robots in Zero Gravity

Eli A. Wolff did not let a stroke at age two stop him from participating in sports in high school and college and becoming a world-class soccer player. He has built his career on advocating for athletes with disabilities. Knowledge@Wharton High School sat down recently with Wolff to discuss opportunities for disabled athletes and how the stereotypes that confront them can be broken down.…

Advocate Eli Wolff: ‘The Disabled Athlete Is Still Siloed and Segregated’

Since the age of 15, Eiso Kant has been a serial entrepreneur, most notably founding Twollars in 2009, the first virtual currency company on Twitter, which raises money online for charities. He talks with Knowledge@Wharton High School about his critical choice to pursue college over full-time entrepreneurship and how and why he finds time for his latest entrepreneurial endeavor. …

Eiso Kant on Web Design, Virtual Currency and Trusting Your Intuition

As senior vice president and chief information officer of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, Bill Schlough “keeps the lights on” for all the team’s technical needs. He recently spoke to Knowledge@Wharton High School about how he came to work in his high school dream job – even though he wasn’t a great athlete – and why it’s important to be geographically flexible if you want a job in the sports business.…

San Fran Giants CIO Bill Schlough: ‘The Business Side Can Be Just as Exciting’

Teen entrepreneurs from California have designed web-based software for educators to alert parents when their kids are skipping class. TruantToday has won innovation awards and support from start-up incubators, but can it beat the tough competition?…

Considering Cutting Class? TruantToday May Be Watching

Today’s political, business and social leaders face no shortage of complex issues requiring quick action. Leaders who have a solid grounding in a number of areas have a good shot at staring down the global challenges and getting people to work together to find solutions. Experts from the World Economic Forum, which is in the business of training top decision makers, offer more insight into the role of a successful global leader.…

Understanding Global Leadership in the Year of the Protester

Evan Reynolds is the 20-year-old manager of OCD: Moosh and Twist, a teen hip-hop duo from Philadelphia, Pa. The one-time Wharton student took a leave of absence in 2011 to promote and handle the group full-time. Reynolds spoke to Knowledge@Wharton High School editor Diana Drake about his decision to leave school to manage a rap duo and why the music industry is like junior high all over again.…

Hip Hop on the Go: Evan Reynolds Is a Young Manager in an Industry of Colorful Characters

DeQuincy “Moosh” Coleman McRae and Oliver “Twist” Feighan are better known as the hip-hop duo OCD: Moosh and Twist. The Philadelphia natives graduated from high school in the spring of 2011 and are now pursuing a music career full time. Their goal in hip hop, they have said, is to spread positivity and prove that hard work can get you anywhere. They talked with Knowledge@Wharton High School about being teens in the rap industry, their lyrical inspirations (“To be or not to be…”) and the importance of believing in yourself. …

Moosh and Twist: ‘City Kids’ in a Hip Hop World