So it’s no surprise that Ann’s grand-daughter, Brooklyn, currently in Grade 6, has inherited an entrepreneurial mindset from her mother, Lindsey, and thrived within the inaugural Noodle Jr. This Junior School feeder program for Noodle, Branksome Hall's business incubator program is now open for Grades 4 to 6. And that’s why Ann chose to make a generous donation to Noodle. 

 

“Noodle aligns with my personal belief in the importance of encouraging original thought and the value of team participation in young entrepreneurs,” says Ann, who comes from a long line of self-made business people in a family of seven girls with one brother.

“Noodle enables young girls to be creative in thought, active in execution and rewarded and recognized by their peers.”

 

Brooklyn participated in the first-ever Noodle Jr. Tradeshow last June, discussing her team’s venture with poise and pitch-perfected confidence. Brooklyn’s team, Foodtainability, addressed food insecurity with a website to facilitate donation distribution to shelters. 

 

Ann is thrilled with the success of Noodle and its rippling effect in real life: “This program has kindled within Brooklyn valuable skills she didn’t know she had and I see in her a much-appreciated renewed excitement about learning. Noodle appears to me to be a program that supports developing actively engaged minds and teamwork in a safe environment. That is why I'm happy to be able to support it.”