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Alumna Entrepreneur Speaks with Class
Maddie Bradshaw ’14 recently Zoomed in to our Upper School Social Impact course “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Social Entrepreneurship and Economics.”
Maddie created the Snap Cap bottle cap necklace while she was 10 years old in Middle School at Hockaday and founded M3 Girl Designs, LLC. By 13, her product could be found in thousands of stores around the country. At 16, she was selling over 60,000 of her unique necklaces a month and making over $1.6 million annually. She was inspired to start a business after her experience with the Second Grade stationery sale in Lower School!
“It was hard when I started because it’s difficult to imagine a young person doing something amazing,” she said. “But now that I’m in education, I see young people doing amazing things all the time!”
She appeared on Shark Tank when she was 15 and won over three of the sharks, and eventually wrote a book, “You Can Start A Business, Too.” Fun fact: one of the Jonas brothers gave her the idea for her dog-tag necklace!
She is now the Director of Product for Inspirit AI, which offers online project-based artificial intelligence courses for K-12 students.
Breaking the Glass Ceiling is a class based in economic principles and the incubation of a business. Girls engage in real-world learning from co-teachers who are Hockaday alumnae and industry leaders. They develop and pitch a culminating socially conscious business plan that addresses a current world issue, and compete for funding at the end of the semester.
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The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.