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Seeing that many students in Appalachia lost access to hands‑on STEM experiences during the pandemic, Jewel teamed up with two senior software engineering students to develop a that pairs high school mentors with middle‑school mentees for weekly virtual labs. By the end of 2021, the app boasted 1,800 active users and earned the 2021 Tech for Good Award from the North Carolina Innovation Hub. 18yearsold jewel bancroft 2021
On a crisp September morning in 2003, my parents brought me home from the hospital to a house vibrating with the bassline of a Missy Elliott track. I was Jewel Bancroft, born into the ringtone era, raised on the fuzzy nostalgia of dial-up internet, and now, at 18 years old in 2021, I am graduating into a world that looks nothing like the yearbook photos I saw hanging in my middle school hallway. Note: This article is based on publicly available