Graduate Student Speaks at TEDx Creative Coast Conference
Georgia Southern engineering student, Ugochukwu Francis Okechukwu, a native of Nigeria, has been invited to speak at the 2014 TEDx Creative Coast Conference themed “Exploring R/Evolution.”
Selected for his accomplishments as an app developer, researcher and entrepreneur, Okechukwu studies mechanical engineering in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology. A staff member at Georgia Southern, Okechukwu is a mobile application developer with Information Technology. His current hobbies include researching and creating medical robots controlled by mobile devices and writing a book about iOS development and engineering. With numerous apps on the Apple App Store, he has co-founded two start-ups.
A nonprofit organization devoted to ideas worth spreading, TED was started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago and gives communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to spark conversation, stimulate dialogue and make connections at the local level.
The event will be held Friday, May 30 from 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. at The Jepson Center, 207 West York St., Savannah, Georgia 31401. Though tickets are sold out, the event will be streamed live.
UPDATE: Aug. 22, 2014 – Francis was featured in the Georgia Southern Magazine this summer. You can find the whole article as well as a link to his TEDx talk here. http://news.georgiasouthern.edu/magazine/2014/07/29/endless-possibilities/
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