SOCCKET ball comes to Jordan


03-06-2013 06:34 PM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS – The U.S. Embassy in Jordan is proud to host Jessica Matthews, co-inventor of the SOCCKET ball and CEO of Uncharted Play, Inc. Ms. Matthews will visit Jordan from June 3 – 5 to conduct a series of workshops and lectures for young entrepreneurs and educational programs for children.

The SOCCKET ball – a soccer ball that generates electricity when kicked – is the brainchild of Ms. Matthews and her Harvard University classmate Julia Silverman. As college juniors enrolled in an engineering class for non-engineers, they were tasked with designing a multiplayer game that would address a world development issue. Matthews and Silverman slipped a shake-to-charge flashlight inside a soccer ball, booted it around campus, and soon had a prototype energy source good for bringing small but nonetheless important units of electrical energy to some of the most energy-starved corners of the world.

Ms. Mathews will conduct a workshop at Yarmouk University in Irbid, an educational program for children at the King Abdullah Park for Syrian Refugees in Ramtha, a workshop at the Working Women Society in Zarqa, and programs with the Children’s Museum, the Jordan Gaming Lab, the Al-Riyadi Club, and the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship in Amman.




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