Image: empowering-student-journalism_52994302220_o_Original. Hours earlier, Ben Shapiro had officially finished his sophomore year at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pa. It was summer. Shapiro entered the movie theater eager to see one of 2022’s summer blockbusters and send off the school year with his friend, Shreya Vaidhyanathan. He hadn’t been in a movie theater since before the COVID-19 pandemic.