PBS series features local business whiz kids

Financially speaking, Mom, a part-time bookkeeper, and Dad, an architect, just didn’t have the extra money to spend.

They could pay the private-school tuition for 11-year-old daughter Zoe. But if she wanted to join classmates on a school-sponsored study trip to Arizona, she’d have to come up with the $1,400 herself.

"She said, ‘OK. Maybe I could earn the money,’ " her mother, Julie Adberg, of Vashon Island, recalls. "And I thought, there’s no way a kid could make that much, even if she asked all her relatives and her friends for help."

Oh, but Zoe did. Showing the sort of initiative Heidi Klum would admire, she proved Mom wrong.

The light bulb went off when she borrowed a friend’s blue fleece cape for Halloween: Bet I could make this!

"Biz Kid$": 2 p.m. Sundays on KCTS’s high-definition channel only. Episodes also streamed at http://www.bizkids.com.

By Florangela Davila

Seattle Times staff reporter

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