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18-year-old Nigerian-American wins awards in finance, AI inventions

via The Punch

Dec. 21, 2024

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A United States-based Nigerian teenager, Okezue Bell, has won over $150,000 in awards for remarkable inventions in Artificial Intelligence and finance.

Bell founded Fidutam, a project using blockchain technology to set up funded bank accounts for unbanked and low-income communities.

This was made available by Swiss Cognitive and other media platforms, applauding his significant feats in technology and finance.

When he was 16 years old in 2022, he invented WeArm, a low-cost and high-developing prosthetic arm, which won over $80,000 in support and won the International BioGENius Grand Prize.

The San Francisco Bay Area-based prodigy conducted research at Harvard Medical School and the MIT Media Lab.

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