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This 27-Year-Old Founder Is Helping Sick Children Heal With Video Games

This 27-Year-Old Founder Is Helping Sick Children Heal With Video Games

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If you were home sick from school as a kid, chances are you either watched The Price is Right or played copious amounts of games. Though Bob Barker was assuredly chicken soup for the soul, the Mushroom Kingdom and Hyrule could both engage and relax the mind as the body worked through illness.

This is the thinking behind Outreach Foundation, a nonprofit that provides hardware and software to children’s hospitals across the country to help its young patients better cope with long-term medical treatment. And at the head of the ship is its 27-year-old founder, Zach Wigal, who landed on Forbes‘ 30 Under 30 list earlier this year.

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