Student Stories

What the pathway looks like
from the inside.

Numbers tell you whether something worked. A story tells you what it was like to be the person it worked on. These are told by the students themselves, in their own words, and shared with their permission.

September 2026 · Story and film
FROM MENTEE
TO MENTOR.

“I was really scared, but I was going to try it anyway.”

Maleekha Fong

Mentee Communications intern Co-facilitator

How Maleekha grew into her confidence, and is preparing to give it back

She met Bold Futures Academy as a first-year student who was not sure her ideas were good enough to pursue. Three roles later, she returns to LaunchLab this fall to help high schoolers trust theirs.

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