"NYLF Explore STEM is built on a multidisciplinary curriculum designed to help students find their passion through hands-on activities in forensics, robotics programming, medicine, and civil engineering. The program provides an invaluable opportunity for curious and high-achieving students to explore the frontiers of 21st-century science and technology."

Hello, my name is Jayden Hubbard. I am 15 years old and just started my freshman year at NC. I was one of the very few fortunate high school students across the country to have this amazing opportunity to join the National Youth Leadership Forum, which is the Explore: STEM program (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics).

I will get invaluable hands-on experience and develop lifelong success skills among fellow high-achieving students.

I will also complete real-world simulations that provide an invaluable introduction to four STEM fields: Robotics Programming, Engineering, Medicine, and Forensic Science.

I have the chance to hear from and interact with top STEM professionals, including medical, forensic science, and engineering professionals (including a former NASA astronaut), and discover new pathways for future success.

I will also learn how to link academic options with college and career goals while also learning invaluable life and career skills, including time management, critical thinking, conflict resolution, communication, and public speaking. These career options help make my career choices simpler. Just for some examples, one of the innovators, roboticists, engineers, doctors, forensic scientists, mathematicians, and or physicists.

As you can see, I am very honored by this and am very willing to work as hard as possible while not in school. I have my own equipment such as a snowblower, lawnmower, leaf blower, weed eater, and pooper scooper. I am a handy young man. I keep my head down and get the work done. I'm available after school and on weekends.

I'm also going to see about setting up a fundraiser if I can figure out how... If anyone could point me in the right direction or would love to volunteer, I'd be ever so grateful!

I also wanted to give all of you my deepest gratitude for helping me reach for my goal. I definitely couldn't do this by myself. Not without the help of this community! Thank you.

Sincerely,

Jayden Hubbard