Builder
I build things I wish existed.
01 · FounderEC Database
A free platform that matches high schoolers with extracurriculars near them.
When I moved from Hong Kong to Canada in Grade 9, I didn't know anyone or which clubs to join, nobody had told me about the club fair so I missed out on dozens of opportunities.
Most students hear about extracurricular opportunities and internships through a sibling, a parent's friend or a teacher. Students who are new, quiet or outside those networks often never hear about them at all.
So I built the resource I wish I had, starting with a map. Share your location or type a city, and EC Database matches you with 10,000+ real opportunities near you: competitions, summer programs, hackathons, internships and local volunteering, filtered by cost, deadline and grade.
- students using it
- 127K
- countries
- 188
- opportunities, 170+ types
- 10K+
students using it
countries
opportunities, 170+ types
Kollegio AIfor $50K
02 · Co-founder & Executive DirectorINNOSpark
An entrepreneurship incubator for middle and high school students.
It started under a pink blossom tree outside our school: four friends, a few hours before our first workshop, unsure if anyone would care. We taught grade 8s how to turn their “what ifs” into businesses.
A year later, some of those students picked our high school because of the workshops. One of them walked into the school board's showcase selling her own hair care line for South Asian hair. Then we went global and hosted the largest student-led high school pitch competition in the world, judged by YC founders and VCs.
- pitch competition participants
- 2,035
- countries
- 50
- raised from Replit, Notion & City of Toronto
- $20K
- grade 7–8 students taught
- 250
pitch competition participants
countries
raised from Replit, Notion & City of Toronto
grade 7–8 students taught
03 · FounderReviva Mart
Mystery boxes of short-dated snacks, saved from the trash.
Perfectly good snacks get thrown out every day just because they're close to their best-before date. In grade 8 I had a food-waste business idea and almost gave up after a year of piecing together random articles online.
Reviva Mart was the second try. I cold-emailed snack brands across North America, packed their short-dated stock into mystery boxes, and sold them at farmers markets in Ontario and New Jersey. The business plan went on to win DECA provincials and the FBLC national championship.
- of food rescued
- 200 lbs
- snack brands partnered
- 10
- revenue, profit donated
- $2K
- DECA Ontario · FBLC national champ
- #1
of food rescued
snack brands partnered
revenue, profit donated
DECA Ontario · FBLC national champ
