Going Live in The Midfield

LOGINS. LEAGUES. LIKES.
Eleven years old. Seven siblings. One killer left foot. And a startup that's about to
go live.
Serina Cortez doesn't do "just, one thing." By day, she's a straight-A virtual school veteran who runs dual monitorş like a
network engineer. By afternoon, she's a travel-soccer midfielder who never loses her cool under pressure. And now,
thanks to a class project inside her school's startup incubator, she's about to become something else entirely: a founder.
When Serina builds an app to save her soccer team from group-chat chaos, it works too well. well. Suddenly her whole team,
her tech-genius classmates, and her own chaotic seven-kid household all want in - and a class assignment turns into a
real product with real users, real bugs, and a real burn rate
Somewhere between a farmers-market pitch meeting and a tournament semifinal, Serina has to figure out how to scale
her app, save her family's sanity, and survive sixth grade - all without dropping the ball. Literally or digitally.
Hit record. Serina's going live whether she's ready or not.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Victoria Cortez serves as chairman of the governing board of a California virtual academy, where she works daily with students building real
academic and entrepreneurial lives online. Going Live in the Midfield is her debut novel, inspired by the students she's watched become leaders inside
virtual classrooms every day.