When Ben Riddle decided to keep his tech skills in South Carolina, everyone benefited.
In the fall of his senior year, Ben Riddle was accepted to Furman University, a liberal arts school just 15 miles away from his South Carolina high school. Then in March of 2012, he was accepted to Stanford, and the lobbying began. Rod Smolla, president of Furman at the time, pushed for Riddle to stay in Greenville.