Kids in our country aren't taught enough about how to manage money and therefore they end up living a life full of stress, debt, and give away their dreams to pay their student loans.

I have 3 kids (8 yrs old, 6 yrs old, and 2 yrs old); we pulled strategies from all over and came up with a system that actually works.

Our kids saved up by doing specific chores (30 cents / day) and after a while they went out and bought their own $240 trampoline. They save for retirement, they save for big toys, and they sit in on our budget meetings when they have the patience. Sounds boring right? Sure is...but way the hell better than having them move back into the house when they are 30.

The spark is about showing the deficiency in our education system when it comes to teaching kids about money. I'm going to showcase a quick step by step guide to teaching them the value of money and teaching them how to manage it.

Our kids are setup so that even if they screw up everything else, they should have $1M in the bank when they are ready to retire. Don't you wish your parents gave you a little more instruction on debt, saving, and investing?

We need a new generation of people that have capital to invest in business and research. Why not elect them to Congress and see if we can get something to balance? It's time to invest in our kids.

Through the evolution of neuroscience and psychological research, we have come to understand that social relationships have a profound affect on the size and shape of a person's brain structure. The nature of your social relationships and the specific elements in your social identity not only affect how you feel, but how your brain functions. So that annoying co-worker, or passive aggressive parent, is not just influencing your day, they are potentially influencing the very structure of your brain. Through awareness of one's social identities and relationships, you have the potential to decide who gets to shape your brain and consequently mold your character, personality, and way of being in the world.

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"It's not easy getting a website made... Web guys are expensive, socially awkward, and they use big words like HTML and CSS. Well, those are abbreviations but the stuff they stand for is probably pretty long.

And at some point, when you're four months into the project and your home page still says ""GoDaddy,"" you've just got to throw your hands up and ask, ""Is my web guy f#cking me?""

He didn't buy you flowers.

He didn't meet your dad.

He didn't even take you to a crappy movie.

But somewhere in a dark room with $3000 of computer equipment and a mattress on the floor, he's smoking a cigarette and thinking of you.

Yes, your web guy may be f#cking you and I'm going to do my best Dr. Ruth impression and show you how."

After working as a biomedical engineer for Children's Hospital Colorado in the field of movement analysis for over 5 years, Tim received a years worth of funding to start the Movement Innovation Labs last November. The program focuses on using digital technology to create a movement lifestyle in Children's patients through a culture of innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. He teamed up with a tech startup company to make things happen at tech startup speed and create some cool applications. What has he learned? Luckily, Tim has made a ton of mistakes that he can share for others to learn from. How can tech startups support healthcare, one of the most regulated industry in America (second to nuclear power)?

So there I was... downtrodden, miserable, and surrounded by the frequent scent of cow ass. My creative nature stifled and gut becoming increasingly rotund I needed an escape from the prison I once called home. Enter, twitter. I was introduced to this loverly social tool and my life was permanently changed.

I wasnt an early adopter, I was just a nerd. I havent always been a Klout whore (contrary to popular belief). I can say with confidence and a tear coming to my eye, despite coming late to the game, had I not embraced social media i'd still be sitting in cow town gaining girth and longing for a better life and I want to tell YOU my story.

Parents do what they can to help newly adult children get started even if it means creating a new business to cater to the kid's strengths. You put them through college (they chose a weird one), tolerate their experiments in the performing arts (pay for the studio time), and eventually start a business that may generate an income. Parents, where would we be without them. Kids, life would be dull without them.

The Spark is creating a business where during the day it performs tattoo removal, at night it's a tattooing business. Folks excited to get a new tattoo and folks regretting youthful decisions.

The genius of the idea is that the storefront will be open removing during the mornings and afternoons, inking in the evenings and at night. That maximizes the rent. The advertising targets the same people. There will be a market for removing ink that the kids of the 90’s bought and there will always be kids ready to self decorate. The equipment probably has some overlap as does the sanitation and inspection.

In the end we need to make our own breaks in the world.

No really, where are they?! Why aren't there more women in computing? Come learn how you can help to balance the ratio of men-to-women, while also helping computer science as a whole for all kids in middle and high school, and on into college.

Still not convinced? Consider this: by 2018 it's expected that US universities will only be able to produce qualified CS graduates to fill 29% of the 1.4 MILLION computing jobs in the US? Fixing the educational process and image of computing to help attract and retain more kids to Computer Science, will not only help improve female success rates, but will also improve the graduation rates for all students. I will show you how you can personally help with this, with incredibly minimal effort on your part.

If you're interested in improving your profits, number of customers, overall creativity, and innovation you should attend this session.