Mya Gooding-Springer, a former student at Birchwood High School, wants to” save the world one switch at the time.”
In order to receive a Women in Innovation plaque and share her accomplishments with business school students, the young investor went back to the Bishop’s Stortford extra.
She attended Parsonage Lane School from 2013 to 2020, and the honor, which was given by primary Sam Griffin, today occupies a prominent position there.
It is a sign of her success after winning the Women in Innovation Awards at Innovate UK next year, which gave her £50,000 in funding for her company as well as personalized mentorship and coaching.
The 21-year-old is the creator and CEO of the software Swapped, which enables users to upload their preferred party attire and trade it in for another unique occasion attire.
Her guiding principle is to let customers swap out their used clothing so that it stays in use and does n’t end up in the landfill.
Mya, a 15-year-old Birchwood scholar who lives in Takeley with her mother Nadine and girl Gabriella, claimed that the environmentally friendly approach appealed to Generation Z and Millennials. According to research, 63 % of people prefer to buy used in order to reduce their carbon footprint. She has spread her information to college campuses all over the nation.
When the original principal school student from Henham and Ugley started her own clothing line called Shop Relatable, she was only 14 years old.
She became aware of the waste in the fashion industry while working on the female empowerment model, which strengthened her wish to address the issue.
The idea of Swapped was finished by the time she was in her next season of fifth kind at Birchwood. The Apple and Google application stores now carry her game.
Making all the decisions is the best part of being your own director, she said, and being in demand makes it the hardest part to have to make every decision.
It’s even difficult to manage people. I was only 17 when I began working on the game, but I had developers who were twice my age. ”
Now that the app is available electronically, she plans to make the entire company more environmentally friendly by developing fully recyclable presentation and collaborating with delivery companies that only use electric vehicles.
She had hoped to pursue a graduate degree at Stanford University in the United States, but she put off that goal because she believed four ages was too long to complete Swapped.
She did, however, complete Stanford Online’s” Idea To Market” programme in 2020, which helped her secure a spot on Allia in the London Impact Accelerator Program.
If I knew then what I know now, there are so many fantastic online business programs that you can consider, she advised other young companies and artists starting out. “”