AS part of their drive to create academically smarter athletes, the ‘7 Generation Games foundation on Friday officially embarked on making Guyana apart of the initiative.

The simple ceremony was held at Palm Court, Main Street, where ‘7 Generations Games’ coordinator for Guyana, Navin Singh; CEO Maria Burns-Ortiz;Jason Fraser, the foundation’s Trinidadian representative; and Secretary of the Queen’s College Board of Governors, Robert Forrester, gave an insight about the project.

Burns-Ortiz, sister of former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter turned World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Ronda Rousey, who arrived from Los Angeles, said the foundation was geared towards perfecting the mathematical and grammatical aspects of children.

She said the educational app which can be downloaded on any device, has been used to help students who suffer with a lack of properly solving and understanding mathematical problems.

Burns added that the foundation has been making games more children-friendly in order to help the users improve their skills.

Fraser said that the move to bring the idea to Guyana was due to the foundation’s goal to introduce the games which will help the local students. He said that the results will be overwhelming as hundreds of persons have made tremendous strides by use of the games.

The local coordinator said that the idea was a brilliant one and he intends to push the initiative, as it will be beneficial to such a sport/academically-oriented nation.

While the foundation plans to work along with the government of Guyana to further make the games accessible, it is expected that the first phase of the project will get underway soon.