Stimulate children’s creativity, curiosity, and clairvoyance at AlligatorZone, but there’s more…

At AlligatorZone, a parent or guardian must accompany the child or teenager. AlligatorZone is one place where parents can take their kids along, after a day’s work, to get their startup fix.  We half-jokingly refer to AlligatorZone as the startup event for kids and youth, where they can take their parents along.  Here are some benefits we have observed over the years.

• Like one 10-year-old kid in Seminole Heights, Florida put it, “Where else can I meet a founder and CEO?”. At AlligatorZone, startup founders make a special appearance to present their work to kids.
• AlligatorZone keeps the youth, ranging in ages 7 through 17, and older, deeply engaged in understanding how a local entrepreneur is attempting to create something novel.
• Kids learn how entrepreneurs approach specific problems across industries.
• Kids get inspired through honest conversations with startup founders.
• Kids enjoy a uniquely uplifting shared-experience with parents.
• At home the kitchen table conversations become lofty.
• Kids realize they too can do something cool. When Jake Heller of Casetext said he went to the naerby high school right in Sunnyvale, that resonated.
• Startup founders at AlligatorZone are often kind and generous role models.
• Kids at AlligatorZone develop poise and confidence to talk to founders/CEOs.
• Kids learn about resilience when entrepreneurs talk of their own setbacks.
• Kids at AlligatorZone may have some great stories to tell in college essays, and become great conversationalists.
• AlligatorZone kids get a peek into the future that’s usually reserved for venture capital.
• AlligatorZone kids know how to be well positioned for internships and mentorships.
• AlligatorZone may even inspire you to find your raison d’être early on.
• AlligatorZone kids become standouts wherever they go, and they go places. AlligatorZone kids are known to thrive at renowned educational institutions. Here are names of a few.

 

AlligatorZone®, where kids meet cool startups™, got its start as a vibrant face-to-face community that brings together startups and school-age kids for a peek into the minds of the startup founders who are creating the future. Over 150 startups have been presented by their founders themselves, to young audiences across 20 cities from Mountain View, CA to Miami, FL, since the debut event of June 2014. AlligatorZone® now offers uniquely inspirational and deeply engaging Learning & Development opportunities for lifelong learners from school and college students to working professionals and organizational stakeholders in industry.