Student
Adarsh is a senior at the Cranbrook Kingswood School Upper School
Harriet Mays
Student
Harriet Mays is a sixth grader at Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Girls. She enjoys reading, writing, sleeping, making computer games, more reading, crafts, weekends, art class, skiing, and her pets- a cat and dog, and even more reading! She loves working with polymer clay, and used it to produce her first stop motion picture earlier this year.
Ian McManus
Student
Ian McManus is a junior at Cranbrook Kingswood. He enjoys spending his free time with friends, taking photographs, and buying and selling shoes.
Ian Rosenberg
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Ian Rosenberg is in seventh grade at the Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Boys. Ian enjoys school, mainly Science, Math, Geography and French. Ian is currently learning Chinese for a future trip to China and will be going to 广州 (Guangzhou) as an exchange student for a month this summer. Ian also enjoys Karate, swimming, snow skiing, computer programming and violin.
Joe LaGrasso
Fleet Manager & Sales, LaGrasso Bros. Produce
After graduating from Cranbrook Kingswood School in 2011 and Babson College in 2015, Joe is currently the Fleet Manager in his family’s 100 year old produce distribution company. Joe has lead the way for the company’s first venture into local farming in collaboration with the Boston based Fright Farming technology.
Kevin Sang
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Kevin Sang is currently a sophomore at Cranbrook Kingswood School. He has had a strong interest in STEM related fields from an early age, but was formally introduced to the field of data science in middle school. Kevin is an aspiring computer and data scientist himself, self-learning multiple languages such as Java, JavaScript, R, and others. He is active in several school organizations such as MUN and Science and Engineering Club. In his free time, he enjoys reading and compulsively checking NBA standings.
Octavia Piper Drew
Student
Piper Drew is a native Texan, born in Dallas, and she moved to Michi-gan in 1st grade when she started Cranbrook. Piper is currently in the 8th grade. She loves to read! She has a book review blog called “The Book Lover” which you can find at www.piperdrew.com. Piper also loves fashion, and she designs, sews, and sells her OPiper! Products. Another one of her many passions includes baking all types of treats!
Sandy Zhao
Student
Sandy Zhao is a junior from Beijing. Back home she attended an inter-national private school, which provided her many opportunities to study abroad and participate in international programs. She likes to travel, play instruments, piano and guitar, and she is a very passionate learner for a variety of things, like photography and psychology. Sandy believes that becoming one of the speakers for Tedxcranbrook is a very challenging, but exciting, opportunity.
Stefan DeClerck
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Stefan DeClerck is a boarding sophomore at the Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School. He is 16 years old and is from Palo Alto, California. He loves to participate in the technology world by building products and teaching others how to code.
Wayne Baker
Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business