Student thrilled to join inventors
Adrian Lindsey is used to getting phone calls.
”It’s great getting calls when you’re in business,” said the 18-year-old Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy senior who works hard to promote and sell his product, the All Net Sak.
But he was taken aback by the call he received one afternoon in mid-August.
It was from the National Museum of Education in downtown Akron.
”I was a little bit overwhelmed when they told me why they were calling,” he said.
Lindsey, who lives in West Akron, learned that he was going to be honored Oct. 25 at the Radisson Hotel Grand Ballroom by the nonprofit museum’s National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors.
He is one of two young entrepreneurs and five young inventors being inducted this year into the organization’s hall of fame.
Lindsey, who plans to begin medical school next summer after graduating from CVCA, is only the eighth person honored in the entrepreneur category and the first from the Akron area.
He created, developed and sells the All Net Sak, a nylon backpack basketball carrier.
Next summer, Lindsey, along with various Akron and Cleveland organizations and the National Museum of Education, will sponsor a two-week Entrepreneur Camp for 44 students in the Akron Public Schools.
”After they told me what it was all about and I found out the company I was joining, it really was overwhelming,” Lindsey said. ”My creation is just a bag, and a lot of these other people are really high-tech and some are even dealing with saving people’s lives.
