Daniela Cooper Marr is a baker in Norman, Oklahoma who specializes in birthday and wedding cakes. She trained at the San Francisco Cooking School in California after graduating from the University of Oklahoma. She enjoys cooking for others, puzzles, and going on walks with her husband, Nick, and their dog, Lando.

Ella is ten years old and the founder of Little Bead. She attends Evergreen Acton Academy and has previously sold her product at an Acton Business Fair at the Norman Farmer’s Market. She is also an excellent singer and has performed in two musicals at her school, and is preparing for a musical at her church. Her favorite color is pink and her favorite game is Uno.

While Allen was born in Oklahoma, his family relocated to Wyoming where they started their family business, Timco Service and Supply. Timco is an Oil field equipment supplier that now has offices in both Central Wyoming and Oklahoma City. Allen started sweeping floors and dusting shelves when he was just 10 years old. After getting married and settling down in Virginia with his wife received a call from his father to return to Wyoming to help with the family business. He knew nothing about running a business except a few classes in accounting and computers. Blessed to have a business mentor that helped see the potential and future of the company, they expanded their products and sales efforts. Allen has successfully managed the business for over 33 years, becoming a business partner in 1994. He met his wife on a high school mission trip to Guatemala and has two grown sons, one of which works in the family business. In addition to running Timco, he has also served the community as an EMT, deputy coroner and as a board member for several local non-profit organizations. He currently volunteers as a business mentor for SCORE, the largest network of free volunteer small business mentors in the nation and serves at LifeChurch Moore as an Operations Team member.

Jack's Jellies is a family run business started in 2021 by 4th grader Jack Rosas. Jack and his mother Erin spend a lot of time in the kitchen together cooking so when Erin showed Jack the process of making pepper jelly, Jack's Jellies was born. Jack's Jellies are homemade using a simple recipe, come in several flavors from smokey to sweet, and each batch is crafted with love.

Sooner Chilled is a student led company, composed of members who are dedicated to growing together in knowledge of the entrepreneurial industry while uniting the OU community through a product that both fulfills their beverage chilling needs and spreads Sooner pride.

Josh Robinson is a junior from Norman, OK. He’s majoring in Entrepreneurship at OU with a Pre-Law focus. He serves on the Marketing Committee and Operations Committee of Sooner Chilled. Josh enjoys developing relationships through his faith with his family and friends.

Zach Munjas is from Allen Texas. He is currently double majoring in finance and entrepreneurship. He is the Vice president of of finance of sooner chilled. Zach’s passions include sports, stocks, and sneakers.

Mike is passionate about saving lives and helping companies manage operations through effective communication of weather risks to businesses and the public. He was a co-founder of Weather Decision Technologies in 2000 and was the President and CEO for the 18 years in operation until the business was sold to DTN in late 2018. Mike then ran the 700-person Weather Business Unit of DTN for 2.5 years, leaving them in March 2021 to form his own consulting business. At present he consults with numerous companies in the weather industry, helping them with strategy and mergers and acquisitions. Before founding WDT, Mike worked at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) for 16 years, the last 7 as the Assistant Director. He has 3 degrees from the University of Oklahoma: B.S. and M.S. in Meteorology and an MBA. Today he is pursuing his photography passion and being an entrepreneur by launching a new business with his two daughters, Weather and Nature Photography.

Brothers Levi and Nathanael Park started Sporty Sweetz as a way to combine two things they love—cookies and sports. They spent several years living abroad in Thailand, where they started their first business, a driveway stand selling snacks, when Levi was just starting kindergarten. Now in the third and fourth grade, they are avid football card collectors and love playing a variety of sports, from baseball to flag football to daily GaGa ball matches at school.

Rachel Dennis is the owner and operator of Rachel's Bakery. She’s had the incredible opportunity to own her own bakery since she was thirteen years old. Baking is something that she has always enjoyed doing since she was little. She remembers making banana bread and it was always the highlight of her day. To this day it still is, but in a much different way now than before. You can find Rachel’s baked goods at conscious community co-op in Edmond as well as in season at Norman farmers market.

Cami Kennedy is 9 years old and in 4th grade at Evergreen Acton She is the proud founder of Stuck on you by Cami. She makes stickers and magnets for all ages as well as custom stickers for your family or your business.  Cami loves dinosaurs, space, legos and of course stickers!

Addison Self is the man behind the roaster at Trek Coffee Company, a small town coffee roastery. He was a barista throughout college and has since dreamed of opening a coffee roastery here in Oklahoma. He believes everyone should be drinking the freshest coffee throughout their days, and he’s making it his mission to get it to you.

Gabrielle and Eden who were looking to find a creative way to help people with the stress of Covid. At Spaliciouse, they guarantee that every single purchase you make will be a seamless process from start to finish.

Liz, a native of Albany, Georgia, moved to Norman in May 2012 with her husband's job. She acclimated quickly into Norman community life by joining Norman Next and graduating from the Norman Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Norman Class of 2015, as well as serving on Norman Arts Council, and Sooner Rotary in both members and board leadership positions. She also helped start Moore Involved, patterned after Norman Next. She was raised in a cooking and entertaining family and those southern hospitality roots run deep through Liz’s favorite family recipes today. Liz has spent over 15 years in the hospitality and catering industry. She brings a love of food and connecting food with people to social butterfly catering. Whether it’s a fun theme or helping to nourish and comfort, Liz is passionate about connecting people and having fun with food!

Wristworld began as an experiential learning project in collaboration with Loveworks Leadership, a non-profit youth leadership organization that teaches leadership, character development and entrepreneurial skills to middle school students and Trifecta Communications, a tech and ad agency based in Oklahoma City. By using augmented reality technology, for months the students worked hard to develop the interactive game world, plot and characters and introduced Wrist World, an AR video game on 4 slap band bracelets in 2018. In 2020, they struck a licensing deal with Hatsune Miku, a popular Japanese vocaloid which opened up international sales. Their product is now available in 100 stores in Oklahoma at Oncue and Love’s Country Stores and also online on Amazon, Walmart.com, Newegg.com, Ebay, and their own website. Connor, now in 10th grade, joined the team as an 8th grade student and is now the CPO of Wrist World.

Mark is the Regional Publisher and Ad Director for the Norman Transcript, the oldest continuous business in Norman, the Norman Transcript. Founded in 1889, the newspaper has been awarded the Sequoyah Award for Best Newspaper in Oklahoma for three years running: 2017, 2018, 2019. In his role as publisher, Mark coordinates multiple newspaper operations in OKC metro and south central Oklahoma. These include: Duncan, Chickasha, Moore and Edmond. He is the publisher of two printing presses, one in Edmond and the other in Norman.

REAL Garden is a team made up of Loveworks students who, with the guidance of our resident gardener, harvest, package, and sell produce from the Loveworks Garden at the Norman Farm Market. The garden is sponsored by Ecowood Solutions. Small seeds can become big dreams!

Pops and Di Di loved reading children’s books to their two children decades ago and now more recently, reading books to and with their grandchildren is a special time of togetherness. Feeling that way about reading together inspired Pops and Di Di to write Jaylyn and Jaxon, books one and two. There may be more coming in the future! Their motto, Be something, Do something, Leave something is incorporated into each of their stories. These books are now a part of the legacy they will leave-so, happy reading!

Earth to Rainbow Art is a business that sells Handmade Functional Ceramics and Motivational Art to spread Joy and Cheer. Each piece is lovingly and uniquely made to elevate your surroundings and your mood. Eco friendly and sustainable material good for us and for our animal friends too.

TurboBeads is a video tutorial series on YouTube teaching the craft of beads. What originally started out as a small passion project has expanded into something much larger. Justin Bennett, the creator of this video series, started out at a young age crafting with beads and many other visual arts forms, In highschool he took up media/video broadcasting learning how to film and edit. In this timeframe, Justin decided to combine arts & crafts with the video and editing skills acquired to make a simple bead tutorial," How to make a bead lizard". As a couple of years had gone by, in 2008 Justin uploaded this tutorial along with the other video projects from highschool media class to YouTube. Not thinking much about these video uploads, it never occurred to Justin that they’d be videos to be watched or popular. In 2009 the bead lizard video started to gain traction and some friends started to take notice of the attention it was receiving and encouraged Justin to continue with video/arts. In 2010 the video “How to make a bead Lizard” had reached Over 60k views, After seeing the exponential growth of this video, it was clear that there was something interesting to be seen. Several years Later, July 2015, Justin Bennett finally decided to return to YouTube creating more bead videos/tutorial and giving an official name to the bead Tutorials, (TurboBeads)

Crochet Jo is a custom order, handmade crochet item company. Jo’s vision is to start a leadership organization for teens and young adults that want to learn crochet, developing confidence in themselves by creating items for homeless shelters, nursing homes, and animal shelters.