Not only do they have the potential to open doors for postsecondary education, but esports programs also have social benefits, said Stockton Chief Information Officer Scott Huston during the Zoom panel.
“We’ve had students come to Stockton — we’ve even had players transfer in — who, while they took a tour of our facilities, I probably got three words out of them the entire time,” Huston said. “(They were) very introverted, used to playing 16 hours in their basements at home, not a real social life.
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“They are now on teams here at Stockton. They’re competing; they’re eating lunch with those teams; they go to the gym with those teams; they play dodgeball with those teams. And now they’re doing interviews, and they’re doing all kinds of different things. We took these introverted students who would barely talk to their own parents, and now they’re flourishing, talking, out there competing and doing really great things.”
Because Andjel transferred during the COVID-19 pandemic, he wasn’t able to experience traveling to other schools for tournaments like the program did in 2019. Still, the ability to meet new people virtually was a welcome benefit.
“It’s been very, very cool,” he said. “I’ve met so many cool people out there, that are participating in Stockton Esports, through the online events, through chat and on Discord, and just the events in general. It’s been really, really cool to meet all these people.”
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