Responding to the technology divide with NSBE

<p>On this week’s episode of Match Volume, Contributor Halee Anderson sits down with Taylor Hill-Miles, Logan Norman, and Ryan Driver to talk about her trepidation after doom scrolling <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdHq1cNo/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!uKFMrrIm7-UttsZGK9Ta50b_taxEUfKJOIBJsdqcwWKKuWUupESZlU015sBQ7_1DgJQt-5aiUouduz2aDw$" target="_blank">TikTok, and why Black Americans</a> need to explore opportunities in the Metaverse. Hill-Miles is a biomedical engineering major. As the chair of the campus <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uscnsbe.org/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!uKFMrrIm7-UttsZGK9Ta50b_taxEUfKJOIBJsdqcwWKKuWUupESZlU015sBQ7_1DgJQt-5aiUouI_fupgg$" target="_blank">NSBE</a> Pre-Collegiate Initiative (PCI),  she is helping to advance Game Change 25, a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nsbe.org/about-us__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!uKFMrrIm7-UttsZGK9Ta50b_taxEUfKJOIBJsdqcwWKKuWUupESZlU015sBQ7_1DgJQt-5aiUotqJNnP9g$" target="_blank">national strategy</a> to increase the pool of Black engineers. Norman, a computer science major and an NSBE member, entered the blockchain/web3/NFT space recently and describes how Black Americans are already making waves with these new technologies. Driver is a business major at Marshall. He’s a “veteran” in the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/nft-non-fungible-token/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!uKFMrrIm7-UttsZGK9Ta50b_taxEUfKJOIBJsdqcwWKKuWUupESZlU015sBQ7_1DgJQt-5aiUotmJJia1A$" target="_blank">NFT</a> space, with some early success leveraging the unique non-fungibles. He explains how the community aspect of the metaverse makes it extremely accessible and primed for  growth.</p>