Incoming Temple University freshman Scott Blender is not spending his last summer before college like many other recent high school graduates.

He could have spent most of his days binging Netflix, hanging with friends or soaking in the summer weather, but the Penn Valley native has been spending the last few months thinking, learning about and working directly with the overwhelming amount of coronavirus data that comes out every single day.

Back in April, Blender and about 20 other young adults who knew each other virtually set out to form the Coronavirus Visualization Team (CVT). While many of them didn’t have money or supplies to donate to frontline workers fighting the virus, they could at least try to help people understand the severity of the pandemic, he said.

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