Elijah Stambaugh was a frustrated middle school math teacher when he came up with the idea for Lightning Grader, a web-based, subscription application that grades 100 pages per minute while at the same time generates 14 robust reports about student performance. He founded the company in 2010 in hopes of helping teachers find more efficient, technology-based ways to understand and address student comprehension. During his school’s summer break in 2010, with the mentoring of the Youngstown Business Incubator, Stambaugh developed Lightning Grader to help teachers become better educators. With the official launch of Lightning Grader in 2012, hundreds of teachers and school districts across the country are realizing the benefits of using technology to achieve higher student performance. Stambaugh taught for two years at National Heritage Academy in Youngstown before leaving the field to concentrate on developing web-based technology to help teachers increase student performance. While completing his education, Stambaugh was a union autoworker at the Lordstown, Ohio General Motors plant for 7 years. Stambaugh is a 2009 graduate of Youngstown State University where he earned a bachelor of arts in education. Stambaugh and his wife Shannon have been married for 13 years and have two children. They live in Jackson Township where they are active in Tabernacle Church. The Learning Egg team currently is working on gaining wider distribution of Lightning Grader and developing more web-based applications to help teachers be the best they can be.