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Stellamaris Onyegbule has been awarded the Most Innovative Optometry Student in Nigeria at the inaugural Damian Echendu award.

The award seeks to reward, encourage innovation and creativity among optometry students in the country by supporting solution-driven innovations relevant to the practice of optometry.

Stellamaris Onyegbule, a student of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) received the award for her “Optoblink Innovation”, which is a spectacle mounted device, helps patients with dry eye due to computer vision syndrome.

Stellamaris expressed her sincere gratitude to God, her parents, brothers, her  Professors (Professor E.C Esenwah, Professor N.C Ikoro, Professor O.U Amaechi), her Head of Department – Dr. Y.C Azuamah, and the rest of her lecturers.

Team Foris Labs has been named winner of the Stanford Center on Longevity 2020-2021 Design Challenge competition receiving $10,000 prize after defeating 222 other entries from 37 countries over the course of the competition.

The Foris Labs team comprised of John Onuigbo from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Nigeria (COOU) and Kyrian Obikwelu from Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria (FUTO).

The team experienced the difficulty of trying to learn science lab skills while online schooling with poor internet connectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. They presented their design for an offline platform that simulates a science lab for high school students, in which they can perform individual or group experiments.

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