NEW YORK — As Junior Bernadin sat with his students last month in a classroom at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, confetti suddenly rained down on him. Seconds later, he watched as his name flashed on television during a National Science Foundation broadcast announcing the country’s presidential award winners for the year.
“It was surreal, sitting there with my students in the classroom as they were watching the virtual honor and announcement,” Bernadin says. “When they said that this was the highest honor you can receive in STEM mentoring in the nation, I thought to myself, ‘Oh, my god.’”
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