Credits: Image: M. Scott Brauer Caption: “As a kid, I’d ask so many questions that were often dismissed or seen as crazy,” Jack-William says. “Learning more and more has been fulfilling, because I’ve finally been able to have responses to those curious questions. For me, education has been a way to answer curiosity.” Credits: Image: M. Scott Brauer
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It was 9 p.m. on a Monday night during the spring of his first year at MIT. To Jack-William Barotta, this meant one thing Physics Day. He had just taken on a tutoring role in the Office of Minority Education’s Talented Scholars Resource Room (TSR^2), and was sitting patiently in the classroom, waiting to tutor any students who arrived with questions.