Omerez spent a year to build an app that uses basketball statistics to help players and coaches in youth community leagues to understand player performance.<\/p>\n
The application called Gamechanger Winnipeg is already being used by a local youth basketball league.<\/p>\n
Omerez said he will use the scholarship money to develop a newer version using artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n
\u201cPlayers are told to do better, but they are not really told how to,\u201d Omerez said. \u201cSo, I wanted to build something that can help players to understand their performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chizara Anyanwu, a grade 12 student from Pembina Trails Collegiate, also won the scholarship for her app, Coeus, designed to help students in writing essays.<\/p>\n
Anyanwu said she developed the app after noticing many of her friends were using AI tools to write their essays.<\/p>\n
\u201cI figured, why not make a tool that will help them write essays (instead of) erasing the whole writing process?\u201d Anyanwu said.<\/p>\n
Anyanwu\u2019s app gives feedback on writing, grammar, and style. Unlike other AI-based tools, it doesn\u2019t do all the job for the student but provides useful feedback.<\/p>\n
Anyanwu said the scholarship will help her get advanced AI training.<\/p>\n
Anyanwu said while Manitoba wasn\u2019t usually not perceived as a technology hub, the Youth in Tech scholarships help to show youth there are opportunities in the province<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019cause it shows not just me, but (to) other Manitoban tech high schoolers that there is a career here, there are opportunities here, there is a community here that is thriving and it can help students,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n
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