About Us
Biz 4 Kidz is an educational project founded in Orange County, CA in 2024. Its main goal is to teach kids to be entrepreneurs, develop financial awareness, as well as foster a business mindset. By creating a platform and process for children to organize their ideas in an economic setting, students develop an entrepreneurial spirit and an understanding of financial literacy, empowering them with the skills, leadership, and knowledge to navigate and succeed in the business world from a young age.
An Immersive Experience — Learn Through Practice
Biz 4 Kidz uses project-based approach to develop, test, and launch a business, all while gaining skills around problem solving, iteration, and collaboration. We believe it is more important for young minds to experience engaging, hands-on work, or even failures (and more importantly, recovering from failures) rather than memorization and repetition, to best retain the information they learn. From exploring market demands with their creativity to working with realistic resource limitations, students learned to blend their ideas with real world applications and bridging the value between supply and demand. The success of this project is not measured by a score or a grade level given by any instructor, but rather by the feedback from the free market (such as profits/loss) as well as the student’s own learning journey.
Life-Lasting Skills Across Fields
As the world becomes more globalized and digitalized, entrepreneurship skills are more critical than ever to solve complex problems, and artfully navigate ambiguity creatively. While we cherish the success of the project created and led by our students as they navigate their unique paths in the free market environment, the real fruits can go a few layers underneath the surface. From leadership, independence, problem-solving, and resource utilization to a deeper understanding of financial responsibility, each student will be equipped with the tools they need to succeed in a life-long adventure regardless of their goals and future career direction. Biz 4 Kidz strives to provide an atmosphere where students establish and excel in these qualities across many fields and life stages so they can flourish in today’s ever-changing world.
The project-based approach is the most effective in preparing kids for the true world of business and providing them with the resilience to face any challenges in life.
Our Founder
The roots of Biz 4 Kidz began during the COVID-19 crisis when Summer spent much of her time homeschooling her children. With her background in finance and passion for influencing her daughters’ growing minds, she was determined to not only cover traditional education topics but also encourage them to develop a business-minded approach in solving learning obstacles.
Summer Hu received her Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from University of California, Irvine in 2020. Prior to this, she received a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Rochester with a double major in financial economics and political science. During the years she and her family live in Orange County, California, she has developed a passion for business education and volunteered her time in non-profit organizations such as Junior Achievement impacting the young generation with essential tools for financial literacy, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurial success.