Katie Stephens is a problem solver by nature and training who likes to read fiction and bake cookies when she's not playing around with Arduino. She has undergraduate and master's degrees in Mathematics and spent many years teaching math at the high school, community college, and university levels. After some time at home raising kids, she started her own website design company and she now spends her time developing educational programming in the Austin area.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• Katie's background
• What MakeCrate is and why she started it
• MakeCrate's kits that teach electronics, engineering, and coding principles
• Why Katie focused on having great instructions for her products
• How Katie works with children to test her products
• Her product testing system and curriculum
• The best feedback her kid testers gave her
• The difference between how MakeCrate does instructions and how other companies do them and how that separates MakeCrate from their competition
• When MakeCrate will begin adding other countries and languages into their products
• What gives Katie the most personal joy from her business
• What's next for Kate and MakeCrate
• Building a community where people can learn and teach

Ways to contact Katie:

• Website: www.makecrate.club
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/MakeCrate
• Twitter: @MakeCrate
• Instagram: @makecrate

A transcript of this episode is available at: systemexecution.com/katie-stephens