I appeared LIVE on the Business News Network, pitching PlayFit Mobile, a startup I co-founded through The Next 36.

Mechatronics student Stephen Lake is selected for prestigious entrepreneurship program “The Next 36”.
What's it like when you have your first business up and running while you are still in middle school? For Stephen Lake, it means a series of fascinating work opportunities in the field of mechatronics engineering and a chance to be recognized as one of Canada's next big entrepreneurs....

Stephen Lake, University of Waterloo, 2012: “Canada desperately needs innovation, and the Next 36 is a driving force in realizing it. It is vital to find an avenue to keep Canada’s most talented and creative students here in Canada, driving productivity and economic growth through entrepreneurship.”

University dragon boat club hopes to grow local interest in ancient competitive sport
Charlotte Prong Parkhill, Chronicle Staff Published on Aug 11, 2010
All he wants is water, a dock and a few boats. But Stephen Lake isn’t dreaming about a cottage. The 20-year-old University of Waterloo student is hoping to establish a permanent home for the school’s dragon boat club...

... Congratulations to Stephen Lake (chair of the OEC 2010), the OEC organizing committee, and all the students representing the University of Waterloo for putting on a great event and showing off how wonderful our school is. Well done Waterloo!...

Glancing at the biographies of some of the recipients, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a unifying characteristic that the winners of the 2007 Top 20 Under 20 awards all share. But according to Akela Peoples, founder and president of Youth in Motion, the non-profit organization that runs the awards program, the young recipients are all cut from the same cloth. "The commonality is that they've all latched on to a passion," Ms. Peoples says. "We all know there are a variety of ways to be successful in life, and we wanted to showcase young people who've chosen multiple paths to success."

... Stephen Lake was part of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 list in 2007. Before beginning Waterloo’s mechatronics program last September he had launched two businesses...

Lake is not your typical new engineering student. At 17 the Toronto native has launched two businesses and was named one of this year's Top 20 Under 20, ...Waterloo was his first choice of Canadian engineering schools. "Do they even teach engineering anywhere else in Canada?" he jokes. "I'm kidding, of course, but for engineering in Canada Waterloo is the place to be. On top of that I love the idea of the co-op program. Being able to make connections with different employers and get a taste of several different fields before graduation is a great concept."...