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RIT’s Albert J. Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, created to help students invent and problem solve through experiential learning, offers multidisciplinary student teams a stipend for the unique opportunity to examine their businesses and, for some, move them to the next level of development.

RIT is contributing to Rochester’s revitalization efforts in a significant way, bringing a creative energy and economic development acumen translating into important arts, cultural, educational, and economic opportunities for the city.

A. Sue Weisler RIT student Peter Hogya, pictured above, is working with a team to help develop a COVID-19 vaccination distribution software system. The team, which also includes students Antony Lin and Nicholas Mulhern, and recent graduate Thomas Ryszkiewicz, is working with coaches at RIT’s Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to bring the idea to the next level. With a global pandemic on our hands, a group of professors and student volunteers came together to build a softwar...