UNC Kenan-Flagler student Chijioge Nwogu got a summer opportunity unlike that of his fellow MBA students. He’s spent the last two months developing a startup concept that will use sports-themed PC or mobile games to help children learn STEM skills.
A sports and technology enthusiast with years of experience in the industry, Nwogu’s “basketball smartgames” are aimed to get kids excited about topics like quantum computing, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality. The concept of using sports as the focus of educational games, Nwogu says, is to hold the attention of children while teaching them data science.
If successful, the basketball concept will be expanded to create a suite of sports-themed educational games.
“Combining sports and learning has been a long standing idea, and now I am brainstorming the best ways to accomplish this,” Nwogu says.
The opportunity was made possible by a first-of-its-kind $5,000 fellowship Nwogu received through a partnership between UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) Club and New York FinTech startup CommonBond, which helps students and graduates pay for higher education.
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A New UNC Fellowship Helps Push This MBA Student’s STEM Gaming Idea Forward
