EdTech startup Myphizz app encourages students for physical activity

Myphizz is a Yorkshire-based edtech startup launched by four former teachers with a desire for involving students in a happier and healthier lifestyle for primary and secondary schools in UK.
The app uses an advanced programming approach that operates through secure school networks and can only be accessed by these communities via computers, tablets, or smartphones.

Myphizz provides a real-time leaderboard that allows kids to build their own challenges in the classroom, on the playground, or at home, giving them control over their physical activity. Teachers also have access to a functional control dashboard that measures individual students' activity levels. Children can compare their results across schools as well.

“Myphizz gives children freedom and empowers them to regulate their own physical activity levels by allowing them to choose the forms of exercise that they prefer.” Said Adam Gemili, a British Olympic sprinter in collaboration with Myphizz to encourage children to become more physically active.

Co-founder Anthony McBride said "With schools still being affected by the epidemic and students potentially missing out on physical activity while isolating at home, Myphizz provides a tool for schools to continue communicating and engaging students in exercise even when they are not in the school context."

Over the next five years, the app hopes to have signed up 700 schools, with aims to use the relationship between elite sporting clubs and educational institutions to hunt out the next generation of great athletes.