Oyate Owa Yawa

## Oyate Owa Yawa "University of Cheyenne"

The Sioux  education system orbits around the Oyate Owa Yawa and it’s the only place in the country where you can get a graduate degree. The country pours an absolutely ridiculous amount of nuyen into the campus each year, and it shows. They even have a small research fusion reactor, for Ghost’s sake. OOY has state-of-the-art facilities for everything from archaeology to zoology, but the investments really shine in the physics, engineering, and microtronics departments, where new miracles in nanofabrication, optronics and Matrix algorithms are brought to life and licensed to the corporations that hover like vultures around the campus.

* **Location:** E. 16th St and Seymour Ave, all the way to E. 19th and Warren Ave (15 city blocks in all)
* **President:** Tatonga, a former tenured professor of the Matrix Engineering program.
* **Nickname:** Golden Eagles
* **Colors:** Gold and White
* **Athletics:** The *Wanbli* have teams for most major collegiate sports, including NAF (North American Football), Basketball, Urban Brawl, Unkcela Pte, Rollerball, Combat Biking and Rodeo.
* **Academics:** The Oyate Owa Yawa is the shining star that the Sioux's high-tech economy orbits around. It has up to 36,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs with a focus on various high-tech fields, with a special emphasis in Matrix-related areas, from the development of Matrix programs and sculpting AROs to the design of new technology to enhance the Matrix experience. Headware is frequently researched and developed at the Oyate Owa Yawa, particularly those pieces of cyberware meant to interface with the Matrix.

The Oceti Sakowin floods the OOY's research and development labs with nuyen, so for decades they've made consistent advances in expert systems. Matrix operating systems and other hi-tech Matrix drek. According to Sioux law, these advances can only be licensed to Sioux corps. There used to be almost a hundred small corps clustered around the OOY, turning tech into profits, then some got bigger and a feeding frenzy began. Corporate attrition has reduced that number to about twenty survivors.

Attracted by the smell of nuyen, the jabbing towers and sprawling research parks of foreign-based software and electronics corps have sprouted up around the OOY. The entire city is a playground for their new gadgets and games. Most corps hope to feed off of the OOY's advances through legit deals if possible, but they'll settle for sneaky business. Shadow biz is easy to find, especially Matrix intrusions. Since the OOY also breeds some of the best software engineers on the planet, a lot of corps prowl about campus, hoping to gobble up young coding gurus. Each year, right around graduation about a dozen extractions take place as the best and brightest students find new corporate homes, whether they want them or not.

In close proximity to the Oyate Owa Yawa is the Bureau of High Technology, responsible for licensing technology developed at the University, located on East 15th Street and Russell Ave. Its proximity to the university campus allows members of the Bureau of High Technology to keep an eye on the university as well as the tech firms, both domestic and foreign, that may be interested in the university’s research. The technology developed by the Oyate Owa Yama and handled by the Bureau is state-of-the-art and finds ready markets throughout North America and around the world.

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