Ian Hansberger and Jane Rovner won Most Innovative Business Idea and Most Likely to Succeed awards at Orange Coast College’s Pirate’s Plank, a business competition where students present mock design ideas for evaluation by a panel of judges.
Hansberger and Rovner both received prizes of $500, internships at OCC MakerSpace and a consultation with a digital media expert.
Inspired by his own struggles with math, Hansberger’s invention was a mock design of an app called “Exseed,” a game made to help people with basic math tasks in their daily lives.
“The premise behind it is to decrease the level of anxiety around math. You’d be able to approach it in a more relaxed scenario like Duolingo,” Hansberger said. “One of the games…
