Six-year-old Mya Prehn made Dragons’ Den history on the weekend. On Saturday, she became the youngest person to ever audition for the show.
The Stettler Elementary School student watches Dragons’ Den with her dad, Brian Prehn, every Wednesday. A few months ago, she said that she really wanted to be on the show.
And so mom Erin Prehn said, “Well, you have to come up with an idea, first.”
They went through several ideas, including a robot that applies makeup.
“Unfortunately, neither one of us knew how to build a robot that applies makeup, so then we had to think of something else,” Erin said. After that, Erin noticed that Mya wasn’t eating everything in her lunch.
“Then she’s, like, ‘Well, it would be easier if it was fun.’ So then we thought of how we could make it a game. That’s kind of how we came up with it.”
And that’s how Lunch Apeel was born.
Each kit comes with a set of stickers with the numbers 1, 2 or 3 on them, and a sheet of paper with a line of apples that lead to a star. For each food item eaten, a sticker goes on the paper: the healthier the item, the higher the number.
When the child eats enough food to reach the star, he or she gets a prize. For Mya, the prize could be something like ordering an item from the book order.
Mya admitted she was a little nervous to audition, but she would be excited to go on the show.
And the producers that she auditioned for liked her pitch.
“They said it was good,” Mya said. But even if she doesn’t make it on the show, the audition was satisfactory, anyway.
“Obviously, if we had a chance to go to Toronto, it would be an amazing experience, but it was kind of just the audition itself; we’re 100 per cent satisfied with that,” Erin said. “We had a business, Mya got to go, she got to pitch it, she got to have a daddy-daughter date, so it’s good.”
But it might have been Mya’s last foray into business. She plans to be a teacher when she grows up.
reporter@stettlerindependent.com