Gaming Scholarships & the Future of Esports in Schools – Gaming Podcast

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Games, Video Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Gaming host John sits down with Sekou and Ryan from Eval, a Princeton-backed startup on a mission to create meaningful opportunities for high school gamers. Join us for a thought-provoking episode as we explore the future of esports video games in education, how Eval connects students with real college scholarships, and what tools they’re building for the next generation of video game players. We also dig into personal stories from the gaming community, the rise of AI in competitive gaming, and whether technology is moving faster than the industry can keep up. All the gaming news and conversations you need, each and every week from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, and Phelps Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, Patrick, Jigglepuf and PeopleWonder Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.com/invite/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1 Visit us on the web:https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast. Today we're diving into the
0:16.6	intersection of e-sports, education, and emerging tech. Can high school gamers actually get
0:22.2	college scholarships for their gaming skills? And what happens when AI starts to outperform
0:26.8	even the best human players? We'll be covering these topics today, but first, some introductions
0:32.7	are in order. I am your host, John, and joining me are our guests from Eval, a Princeton-based startup trying to change the way we think about gaming and education.
0:44.1	Siku and Ryan, welcome to the show.
0:47.1	Thank you, having us.
0:48.8	Great to be here.
0:49.9	Of course.
0:51.0	Yeah, of course.
0:52.6	So the weather is kind of humid there in Jersey today, huh?
0:57.1	Yeah, it's definitely not ideal.
1:00.8	I got to ask you guys right out of the gate.
1:05.2	Is esports being sort of positioned as the next legitimate college sport at this point? Or explain this concept
1:15.8	to me? Yeah. So right now, especially after COVID, East sports has been gaining a lot of popularity.
1:23.1	And students, teenagers are one of the main demographics that really are invested in esports, and as a result,
1:29.9	a lot of high schools and colleges are investing in these sorts of programs. So not only do they
1:34.3	have teams, but you also have them investing in a lot of the infrastructure. You have paid
1:38.5	sports coaches, esports management, you have paid esports recruiters, and there's a whole ecosystem
1:43.7	developing around
1:44.6	Scholastic Esports. And I would say that it's very well in order to be the next collegiate-level
1:51.2	sport. I can't believe that I as a lifelong nerd and gamer, am living in a world where collegiate and e-sports can exist in the same
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