YL9: Turning Hobbies Into Cash

They go to school, get good grades, and hang out with their friends. _____________, they are typical teenagers.

But what makes these teens _________ their peers is that they have learned how to make money from their hobbies.

Ryan Wilson, 15, learned to bake by watching ____________.

He enjoys baking cupcakes and bread, but what he really loves creating are large, colorful cakes. He usually bakes one cake _________.

Each cake takes about eight hours to make, and that doesn't include the time needed to 10 upload videos to his _________ pages-some of which receive more than 200,000 views.

After uploading the video, he shares the cake with friends and family. Ryan ____________ on several TV baking shows, and someday hopes to have his own show.

The self-taught baker also makes money-money that will one day be __________ college. And that's the real icing on the cake!

Jasmine Shao was 13 years old when she asked her mother for __________ to post her videos online

At first her mother wasn't sure it was a good idea, but, after seeing how hard her daughter worked to __________ the videos.

she eventually agreed. 20 Now 17, Jasmine is a social ____________-someone who others follow, get ideas from, and even copy.