Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series

Young podcaster Maxwell Miller interviews Jennifer George, the fashion and jewelry designer and the mastermind behind the current Rube Goldberg Institute. Check out Jennifer's website: https://jennifergeorge-nyc.com/ Check out the Rube Goldberg Institute: https://www.rubegoldberg.org/ Learn more about the podcast host: Maxwell (Max) Miller is a 12-year-old student from Lewis Center, Ohio who...

The Code Whisperer - Jessie Jiang, hosted by Siddharth Vikram Siddharth (Sid) Vikram welcomes Jessie Jiang - Founder and CEO of Create and Learn, an online learning platform that presents STEM classes to youth in a creative and fun-filled fashion. Jessie was previously product director at Google and earned her MBA at Stanford and her Ph. D. in computer science from UCLA. When Sid was 7, he really...

In this episode host Nishka Lal sits down with Ashley Jablow, founder of Wayfinders Collective and creator of Life Design School. Ashley has spent the past fifteen years helping individuals and organizations rethink what success really looks like by applying innovation methods, design thinking, and creative reflection to the way we approach our careers and personal growth. Learn more about Ashley&...

In this episode of the Young Collaborators Podcast Series, host Nishka Lal sits down with Kimberly Haley Coleman, founder of Leaders of Transformation, to explore how service becomes leadership. Together, they discuss voluntourism, purpose-driven impact, and how meaningful service can grow into lasting change — showing how young people can lead with intention in the world they are building next. ...

In this episode, 12-year-old host Siddharth “Sid” Vikram talks with veteran innovator and entrepreneur Jim DeBetta , who has founded multiple million-dollar companies and helped place over $250 million in products into major retail stores . Jim has worked with Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank and is widely known for mentoring and supporting aspiring innovators. Together, Sid and Jim discuss turnin...

Young Innovator with limitless potential - Nirbhuy Arun, a 10-year-old gifted Davidson’s Young Scholar, a MENSAn who lives in Richland, Washington, USA. He is interested in solving complex problems and has a deep passion in understanding the role of AI in medicine. He loves to work on embedded systems and spends his time researching math and loves to explore maps. I have met him numerous times dur...

The Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series welcomes Samriddhi Tiwari.  Discover how a simple, everyday material inspired a groundbreaking idea in sustainability. Explore how Samriddhi Tiwari turned discarded human hair into an effective natural fertilizer. “I remember visiting salons and noticing these huge piles of discarded hair on the floor. It honestly shocked me, I had never real...

Welcoming Robert Yusim to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such wo...

Welcoming Reece Weitzel to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such w...

Welcoming Molly Seedhouse to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such...

Welcoming John McGill and Brent Geppert to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the...

Welcoming JM Duparc to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such wonde...

Welcoming Heidi Olenczuk and Loretta Rode to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend t...

Welcoming Greg Ahearn to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such won...

Welcoming Grant Lyon to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such wond...

Welcoming Eleanor Wyskiel to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such...

Welcoming Dick Esterle to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such wo...

Welcoming Anthony Gullotti to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with suc...

Welcoming Angel Trichak to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such w...

Welcoming Ahren Hoffman to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such w...

Welcoming Tracy Dudkiewicz to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with suc...

Welcoming Ross Thompson to the Innovation World Young Collaborators Podcast Series.  The Innovation World Podcast Team was honored to be a part of the Young Inventors Challenge hosted by People of Play at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair on November 8, 2025. The podcast team collected interviews from student innovators, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was incredible to spend the day with such w...

I'm here today with Buddy Muns, a student in high school and founder of Lunch Box Buddy, a food program that distributes free lunches to local students during the summer. He has distributed over 1600 lunches in just 6 WEEKS; that's like 50 lunches a DAY! He has made sure that NO child remains hungry in his local town, Devizes. He was alarmed by the number of students which relied on free...

Learn how friends Raj and Ben worked together to invent iTrash a solution to a common problem in cafeterias around the world. “We picked this problem because in our school cafeteria, people kept mixing up trash, recycling, and compost. At first, we wanted to make a robotic sorting system, but then we realized robots are super hard to build, use a lot of energy, and are really expensive. Apps are w...

Welcoming Maximilian (Max) Kopp, a 17-year-old innovator working at the intersection of health and technology. He’s the founder of VitaSensor, a startup pioneering non-invasive glucose monitoring technology, and the founder of the Kopp Foundation for Diabetes, a youth-led initiative supporting leadership and awareness in the Type 1 diabetes space.  Reach out to Max: www.koppfoundation.org mkopp@ko...