I'm in the process of going through the construction of a 20,000 square foot $11.5 million dollar building dedicated to career and technical education for the students in the Philadelphia region.

It’s thanks to organizations like the Yass Prize that our children are going to have a better tomorrow.

And through that, we were able to open up our second campus in the city of Wichita.

The funding is not following children. We're trying to make better options for kids, for poor kids, middle class kids. Wealthy people have this choice, they opt out of their systems easily, why shouldn't all children have that choice?

We don’t want you to rinse, wash, repeat. We want you to build and sustain.

in innovators who are doing this type of transformational work, so that others can learn from it and replicate it, so that you can actually grow yourselves.

It's actually mind blowing. I really see myself as an education entrepreneur, but this expanded me.

The Yass Prize has empowered our youth, families and community by bringing great visibility to our efforts.

The Yass Prize is almost like Burning Man for education reform.

It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.

I don’t think I’ve been in a room as supportive as the Yass Prize Semifinalist room in Miami.