Optoversity challenge set for 21 march online

Optoversity – the exciting challenge to test the knowledge and diagnostic skills of student optometrists – will take place on Sunday 21st March as an online event, marking the start of World Optometry Week.

Universities are being urged to draw up teams from all year groups to compete.

Out Of The Box Optics uses the exciting event as an opportunity to draw the next generation of optometrists together and at the same time raise much needed funds for Vision Care for Homeless People, through student and team sponsorship.

(Last Year’s Winners)

Last year the event raised £5,500 for the charity and in 2019 the sum was £3,600.

Harinder Paul, Vision Care for Homeless People Trustee, is encouraging everyone to become involved. “It is a really exciting event – won by the students at Hertfordshire University last year. We are really looking to draw the whole optical community together for this one day event and looking for our terrific supporters in optics to put up prizes for the best students.”

The day’s challenges have previously involved an ocular disease picture quiz, multiple choice questions, practical exams and anagrams to unscramble optical terminology.

Many of the students felt they had learned a lot at the previous events – particularly working to a deadline. It is great fun and we are appealing again for support from sponsors who always make the event a great success,” added Harinder.

North London optom Karmelo Modina who created the event, in partnership with Gajan Singh, said “Optoversity has proved to be a fantastic way to bring together optometry students and to help prepare them for working life in the best way possible. Plans are already underway for the online event, which should see even more entrants due to the fact that no team will have to travel to the Anglia Ruskin site, where it has been kindly hosted in previous years.”

Students can enter via the website and businesses which would like to donate prizes please email: optoversity@outoftheboxoptics.co.uk

https://www.visioncarecharity.org/event/optoversity-challenge-2021/