STEM opened up the world to STEMQueenDE, well beyond her rough neighborhood of Southbridge in Wilmington, and she's determined to make STEM the ticket out for other girls as well. BurrellTV has her amazing story:
WILMINGTON, Del. — CBS3 is celebrating Black History Month by introducing you to unsung heroes. One of them is from Delaware, where a college sophomore made it her mission to uplift young people from her violence-plagued neighborhood.
“The violence rate is really high, and the drop out rate is really high,” she explained, adding, “And I said, I want to do all that I can to minimize those effects.” “So I said, you know what I just have to show them that, you can be so much more than what you can see,” Jackie said. “And that was it, that’s what made me really want to make a difference.”‘ has introduced hundreds of young people to stem using visual experiments. And another tool in her arsenal?