Reporter Maryanne Christiano-Mistretta wrote about the launch of the Samaritan Scout volunteer-focused search engine for the Union News Daily. She wrote:

A group of passionate volunteers have created a groundbreaking artificial intelligence-powered search engine that launched last month. Samaritan Scout is a free platform which helps people find in-person volunteer opportunities.

The co-founders of Samaritan Scout are Will Rosenthal and Dvora Inwood. Rosenthal, of Cranford, is a 19-year-old computer science student at Cornell University. Inwood, of Springfield, is a former educational technology product developer. In high school, Rosenthal was good friends with Inwood’s daughter, which is how their paths connected.

In creating Samaritan Scout, Inwood led a team of volunteer software developers that included Jack Greenwald and Akash Dubey, recent graduates of Union County’s Academy for Information Technology, who created the front-end. Then, Rosenthal brought on two Cornell classmates, Pradhi Pakkerakari and Wyatt Sell, who built a search engine that analyzes 501c3 organization’s websites using AI to identify and describe volunteer opportunities.