Rendering MyST Markdown in Jupyter Notebook on VS Code

[StefanoDeVuono]

I'm running a Jupyter Notebook in VS Code and the MyST markdown cells are not displaying properly

I'd like the MyST markdown cell to render correctly. Here's how it should render:

I've searched online for solutions, most posts about extending Jupyter on VS Code relate to running code in Notebooks as opposed to displaying markdown. The only thing I found specifically about MyST Markdown in Jupyter was from jupyterbook.org, which said to enable the this extension.

I have the following plugins installed in my pip environment:

# Requirements for building and deploying the textbook.
jupyter-book
ghp-import

# Requirements for building and deploying the textbook.
numpy
scipy
pandas
matplotlib

datascience
prob140
shapely
descartes
ipywidgets

The Jupyter and MySt extensions are enabled and the correct python virtual env is selected as the Jupyter kernel. Here's a MyST Markdown cell currently renders: