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June Beachwood Buzz
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If singing is your jam, then Bran-
dyn Armstrong, 24 and from East
Cleveland, has a piece of technology
to meet your recording needs. He
created the Studio Stick, dubbed as
"the first portable recording studio
for smart phones and tablets" that
mimics what a real studio could offer.
His excellent website offers a product
demonstration at studiostick.net.
For those like University School se-
nior Marc Frankel, who like to fidget
and has taken apart and broken many
pens in the process, he has the ulti-
mate solution. It's the Fidget Widgets
he creates with the help of school-
mate Nick Orlando, which serve ac-
tive fingers' needs without sacrificing
necessary stuff. The students produce
their widgets with a 3D printer, pur-
chased for $700 and drawn from the
$1,000 prize money won in a school
business competition. The widgets are professionally packaged
and sold for $12, with new designs coming out monthly. The
plastic is environmentally safe, according to Frankel, and made
from PLA, a cornstarch derivative. To optimize your fingers' free
time, go to fidgetwidgets.net.
If sports tickle your fancy, there's
a cohort of local sports enthusiasts
whose fingers essentially do the
talking when they post to the Cleve-
land Sports Talk website (clesport-
stalk.com, @CLEsportsTalk). The page
is packed with content relating to
all of Cleveland's teams, featured in
videos, slide shows and lots of posts
with news and analyses.
"We get 25,000 hits per month, and
we have 119,000 Twitter followers,"
according to Zach Shafron, the CST founder and CEO, Solon
High School graduate, Class of '15, and Kent State University
sophomore. He's aided by Cam Carmen, director of marketing
and communications, and student contributors David Kalk,
Peter Zeid, Christian Hinton and Max Alter.
"It's a site by fans for fans," Shafron notes.
Taking their business to the kitchen
are BHS Class of '15 graduates Adam
Pearl and Taylor Nash, who own Three
Kings Bakery (threekingsbakery.org).
They make pastries and breads, and
their selection includes banana nut,
crusted cinnamon, carrot apple and
pumpkin glazed.
"Some of the recipes come from
my great grandparents who owned
Parkview Bakery in Cleveland," reports
Pearl. They sell the fruits of their labor
mostly online.
" eir (students') tech savviness allows
them to compete in a global market
from anywhere with limited expenses
and overhead."
Greg Perry,
BHS marketing/
junior achievement instructor
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