Pilar Gravitte
Little Lemon
2025 National Youth Entrepreneur of the Year.
Real kids
Sweet success stories
Real kids. Real stands. Real businesses.
Every one of these kids set a goal, made a plan and opened for business. Some gave their profit away. Some are still running a company today.
The kids
Meet the entrepreneurs
Tap a filter to find the national winners, the kids who gave back, and the ones still in business.
Pearl Hope
Lucky Lemonade Co.
$3,700 in sales in 2024.
Enrique
Baked goods
A sales record of $1,240.50.
Kyrei
Stroke Survivor Lemonade & Co.
Earned $2,375 and donated $300.
Duane Shaw
Lemon Squeezos
Grew over 100% to $1,465.
Reya, Nivedh, Aarush and Naysa
Dolphin Buddies
Raised $354 and gave $111 to Feed My Starving Children.
Juliana
Food truck
Went on to open her own food truck.
Danyarelie Ruiz
Puerto Rico
2020 National Youth Entrepreneur of the Year. Pivoted to social media during the pandemic.
Ja'Qub and Jaden
The Boys Who Never Gave Up
Wrote the book "The Boys Who Never Gave Up".
Lane Sopko
Major League Lemonade
Raised money for a firefighter.
Rebekkah
Lemon cookies
Went from 120 dozen to over 250.
Mikaila Ulmer
Me & the Bees Lemonade
Started at a Lemonade Day stand in 2009. Today Me & the Bees Lemonade is a real company, and Mikaila sits on the Lemonade Day national board.
Rohit and Sidharth Srinivasan
Trashbots
Two Lemonade Day alumni who went on to build Trashbots, a company of their own.
Katie
Katie's Fresh Squeezed Lemonade
Her Lemonade Day stand grew up into a lemonade trailer of her own.
Saanvi
Louisville
Took home the trophy in Louisville, with a Lemonade Day banner behind her.
Brianna
Award winner
Brought her dad along to collect her award in front of the Lemonade Day backdrop.
“Lemonade Day taught me to bee-lieve in myself and my capacity to succeed. That makes all the difference when it comes to being a change-maker!”