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The (NYSE) Bell Tolls for Scott Barnhill - CBL
By Citybizlist Staff
The New York Stock Exchange has its bell rung every day, but Monday, January 11, the clang will have a particularly youthful sound.
Baltimore native Scott Barnhill, a senior at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., will join a cast of VIPs in ringing Monday's NYSE session to a close. A prizewinning inventor since the age of nine, Scott earned this honor by serving as a celebrity judge for the Financial Future Challenge, a national competition sponsored by the NYSE Foundation and K12, and run by By Kids for Kids Co.
The NYSE gig adds to a spate of laurels for the eighteen year old. At age nine he invented a ‘Security One Card" that aggregates the magnetic strips of several different cards onto one card. The card won the 2003 Student Ideas for a Better America Competition. The next year Scott won the LeTourneau University Invention & Design Contest and was named "Innovator of the Year" by the Maryland Daily Record.
In 2006, Scott Barnhill's Security One Card, now dubbed the "Allowance Card," received its first licensing deal. In recent years Scott served as a VIP judge in the Staples Invention Quest Kids competition, and appeared on the "Think Big" Canadian TV series, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on MSNBC, and Maryland Public Television's "Business Connection" program.
Scott's inventor career was capped last year when he was elected to the Inventors Digest Youth Inventors Hall of Fame. But for all his achievements as an inventor, Scott Barnhill has excelled well outside the laboratory.
Over the past six years Scott has garnered countless kudos in sailing competitions and races, including Maryland State Championships and Chesapeake Bay Junior Olympic Championships. He is a member of the Tabor Academy varsity sailing team and has served as skipper or member of various crews, Scott is also a certified sailing instructor and American Red Cross certified lifeguard. On land he interned for Sailing World Magazine and completed a semester of study in Nautical Science.
On Monday afternoon, Scott Barnhill will represent the community of youthful entrepreneurs when he chimes in with Duncan Niederauer, CEO of the NYSE, Ronald Packard, CEO of K12, Norman Goldstein, CEO of BKFK, and other NYSE officers at the NYSE podium.
The financial setting shouldn't be all that foreign for Scott. After all, he is the son of Greg Barnhill, an executive at Brown Advisory in Baltimore, and the grandson of Robert B. Barnhill Sr., founder of a NASDAQ Company, Tessco Technologies, Inc.
Watch a live webcast of The Closing Bell at 3:59 p.m. ET on January 11, 2010. The archive will be available shortly after the event.
About By Kids for Kids Co.
By Kids for Kids® (BKFK®) is a platform that empowers youth invention, innovation and entrepreneurship. BKFK promotes youth social innovation and partners with leading corporations to inspire product development, crucial technology skills, invention, and innovation in young people from 8 to 22. BKFK provides a unique platform for young people to develop, showcase, and commercialize their products, inventions and entrepreneurship. BKFK's ‘cycle of innovation' develops critical 21st century skills in our nation's youth. The company provides educational resources- curriculum and challenges that promote social change, product development and entrepreneurial endeavors. Learn more: www.bkfk.com
About K12, Inc.
K12, Inc., a technology-based education company, is the nation's largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online education programs to students in kindergarten through high school. K12 provides high quality, customized education solutions to school districts, charter schools, and directly to families ranging from individual courses to classroom and hybrid programs to full-time virtual school programs. Since K12 was founded in 1999, it has delivered over 1.5 million courses to students worldwide. Currently, more than 69,000 students in twenty-five states are enrolled in virtual schools operated by K12 . The company also operates the K12 International Academy, an accredited, diploma-granting online private school serving students in over 40 countries. K12 's mission is to provide any child the curriculum and tools to maximize success in life, regardless of geographic, financial, or demographic circumstances. More information can be found at www.K12.com.
