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Bailey B.

South Mountain Community College

“I want to major in economics or finance with a focus on sustainable systems and engineering.”

Junior ACE program student Bailey B. has been selected as a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is the oldest merit-based and most prestigious scholarships in the country, with fewer than four percent of candidates becoming members of the Class of 2023. The purpose of the Morehead-Cain Foundation is to identify and invest in promising leaders, challenging them to have a profound impact on the people and pursuits that define their lives. The scholarship covers four years of tuition, housing, meals, books and supplies, a MacBook Pro, an annual travel/discovery fund, four summer experiences such as the International Gap Year before college, Study Abroad and other enrichment and networking opportunities.

Bailey is in the International Baccalaureate Diploma program at North High School. Besides her rigorous IB courses, she is the lead intern and researcher in the Farm @ South Mountain Community College Aquaponics Case Study, and through the SMCC Junior ACE program, she earned a certificate in Entrepreneurship, focusing on the combined art of storytelling with business to create pitches and make complex ideas appealing to the general population. She is the head of the Food Committee in the Arizona Science Center Teen Advisory Board, authored a book to spread awareness of food insecurity in Phoenix, and attended Yale Young Global Leaders-Sustainable Development and Social Entrepreneurship, an academic and leadership enrichment program. She is currently an online student in an engineering outreach program at MIT.

Bailey wants to major in economics or finance with a focus on sustainable systems and engineering. She has taken six science classes in high school to prepare for engineering in college. She hopes to become an investment banker to help struggling communities create self-sustainable economies.

Besides North Carolina, she has been accepted at Cornell and Emory College.​

South Mountain Community College, SMCC ACE Program