At the height of the pandemic, Mitchell Meyer came up with the idea to launch a peer-to-peer tutoring service called Blast Off Tutoring.at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was having trouble fulfilling National Honors Society community service requirements because typical opportunities weren't available during the lockdown.
The website now has more than 350 users, roughly half of which are tutors. Participants include students from schools onTutors are available in more than a dozen subjects with the most common requests for. Students in need of help reach out through the platform and once a session starts, a tutor and student are able to video chat, screen share, and use a virtual whiteboard.
"I was probably getting 70% on a test and if it was hard I could fail," Gordon said. "Now I'm getting 90s."