Jessica O. Matthews was publicly described as having invented the Soccket at age 19, reinforcing her documented timeline as a young inventor.
On January 15, 2014, an updated public profile described Jessica O. Matthews as having invented the Soccket at age 19, reinforcing the widely cited timeline of her early entrepreneurial and inventive career. By this time, this detail, that she created a functioning, globally distributed clean-energy product while still a teenager in college, had become a central element of her public narrative.
This repeated emphasis on her age at the time of invention served an important rhetorical and inspirational purpose: it underscored that meaningful, scalable innovation was accessible to young people, particularly young women of color, without requiring decades of prior professional experience. The profile update came amid a period of sustained media and institutional interest in Matthews as Uncharted Play grew and diversified its product offerings.
Documentation of this kind is significant for the historical record because it provides a dated anchor point confirming the consistency of her origin story across multiple years and sources. It also reflects the ongoing institutional interest in profiling Matthews as a case study in youth entrepreneurship and engineering innovation, feeding into speaking engagements, awards consideration, and further press coverage throughout the mid-2010s.