AMMAN -- The US embassy in Jordan is scheduled to host Jessica Matthews, co-inventor of the SOCCKET ball and CEO of Uncharted Play, Inc., this week.
Matthews begins her visit to Jordan on Monday and concludes it on Wednesday, conducting a series of workshops and lectures for young entrepreneurs and educational programmes for children, according to an embassy statement.
SOCCKET ball -- a ball that generates electricity when kicked -- is the brainchild of 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.
© Jordan Times 2013
