From Sewing to Bridges: Jackson Turns Her Hobby into an Award-Winning Engineering Pursuit [Women to Watch]

Holly Jackson won second place in the IEEE Presidents' Scholarship in 2017 for her algorithm that performs a "virtual reading" of unopened historic European letters from the 17th century. She took computed tomography scans of unopened letters and worked for a total of eight months on a team during tenthand 11th-grade summer internships at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT) to come up with a way to read the letters without touching the paper.