Venter helped select the wood -- spalted maple burl from a 150-year-old Virginia tree -- from which the desk is made.

Rick Rahim from Virginia flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle.

Sarina Harper, a 19-year-old student at Virginia Tech, was faced with a tough dilemma when she first started college in 2015 — pay rent or pay to turn in her chemistry homework.