Caine’s Arcade is the brainchild of one young boy from East Los Angeles. Caine is addicted to games so naturally he built his own arcade. He started out by taping a tiny basketball hoop to a box and charging people a nickel to play his dad says. Over time the games started becoming more elaborate. For one dollar a customer can get four plays but for two dollars you can get a fun pass worth 500 passes. Eventually Caine made a fully functioning claw game. This has manifested to a small business that Caine operates on the weekends. Every game is made from cardboard. It is quite impressive! Not many people frequented Caine’s Arcade at first that was set up in front of his dad’s auto parts store but finally someone gave it a shot and realized the ingenuity and genius within this kid.
This was a man named Nirvan. Eventually Nirvan decided to take things to the next level and to make a short film about Caine and created a Facebook page for him announcing a surprise flash mob meeting at his arcade. Within an hour NBC news got word of it and then news hit the front page of Reddit! This is the power of social media in our digital world. It can unite people with a passion and a purpose. Eventually Caine arrived at his arcade to find a packed house of what seemed like nearly a hundred people. These were people rallying behind a good cause and a kid with a whole lot of love and passion to put out into this world. Now this has taken off to a whole new level. $240,000 has been raised for Caine’s scholarship fund and now over 100,000 kids take part in a global cardboard challenge inspired by Caine and his cardboard arcade. This helps to inspire young kids and to foster creativity. Kids are capable of the most amazing things when given opportunities and when they are believed in. Have you believed in someone lately?
This was a man named Nirvan. Eventually Nirvan decided to take things to the next level and to make a short film about Caine and created a Facebook page for him announcing a surprise flash mob meeting at his arcade. Within an hour NBC news got word of it and then news hit the front page of Reddit! This is the power of social media in our digital world. It can unite people with a passion and a purpose. Eventually Caine arrived at his arcade to find a packed house of what seemed like nearly a hundred people. These were people rallying behind a good cause and a kid with a whole lot of love and passion to put out into this world. Now this has taken off to a whole new level. $240,000 has been raised for Caine’s scholarship fund and now over 100,000 kids take part in a global cardboard challenge inspired by Caine and his cardboard arcade. This helps to inspire young kids and to foster creativity. Kids are capable of the most amazing things when given opportunities and when they are believed in. Have you believed in someone lately?