Canyon Lake student receives $10,000 grant

Everybody has heard the saying that it only takes one person to make a difference in the world. Young trailblazer Jesse Rupe from Canyon Lake is proving that statement is true.

Jesse Rupe

A freshman at the University of California, San Diego, Jesse was recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the Be More Fund by the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) for his world betterment project, JHR Innovators.

To Jesse, world betterment is not about solving just one problem, but it’s about solving numerous problems that lead to massive issues ranging from poverty to climate change. To fight these issues, his startup, JHR Innovators, begins with a three-part foundation:

• Develop the Universal Model (UM) endeavor.
• Create self-constructing rail robotics to mimic biology and create sustainable infrastructures.
• Use the UM for business advising and build a UM community. The UM‘s insights into efficiency and reality will improve lives, increase democratic principles within corporations, better ethics, and more.

JHRI will not tackle the 1000s of components alone. Instead of reinventing the wheel for each global issue, it will create UM systems and tools for everyone to collaborate.

JHRI also has a great deal of moral responsibility and will create best-in-class, user-oriented, pro-job products. It will merge human and AI potential while helping other companies, too, foster kindness, balance profits with consciousness, and create new wealth measurements. With these systems, JHRI will fulfill its mission of “see a need, fill a need.”

The Be More Fund was created to acknowledge the positive, future-focused work that students, young professionals, and educators are doing. Through the program, students and educators participated in a Shark Tank-like competition at NSHSS’ Scholars Day in Atlanta, where they presented their projects to a panel of judges.

Ten winners were selected to each receive a $10,000 grant (totaling $100,000 given by NSHSS) based on their professional presentation of a creative and viable plan to make the world a better, more equitable place.

NSHSS is a premier honors and scholarship program co-founded by Claes Nobel and James Lewis. It offers a lifetime of benefits, pairing the highest performing students worldwide with high school and college scholarships, events, connections, internships, and career opportunities that begin in high school and carry on through college and careers.