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Article: Whiz kid: a teen uses his science smarts to develop a card game based on chemistry.(PHYSICAL: CHEMISTRY)(Anshul Samar's Elementeo)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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While most other teenagers were hanging out at the mall or playing ball outside, Anshul Samar spent his free time thinking about ways to combine fun and education, and whether he could start a company based on that.
Two years later, Anshul finally emerged with Elementeo, a fantasy card game that educates kids about chemistry while entertaining them with mysterious creatures and classic combat--themes that are central to most popular card games on the market. "The learning is a side effect of the fun," says 14-year-old Anshul, a freshman at Bellarmine College Prep in California and CEO of his own company, Alchemist Empire, Inc., ...