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Katy Arons Wins 2024 ACC InVenture Campus Qualifier, Advances to National Competition

Friday, February 16, 2024, By Cristina Hatem
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Katy Arons

Katy Arons ’24, founder of Continual Consent and a student in the School of Information Studies, won first place at the 2024 campus qualifier competition for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize on Feb. 1 held at Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad. She and her team will now advance to the national competition being held March 26-27 at Florida State University and televised on PBS.

Continual Consent is a health and safety mobile application designed to revolutionize conversations about consent and intimacy. As the winner of the Syracuse University competition, Arons will receive an expense paid trip to compete in the ACC InVenture Prize finals from March 26-28 in Tallahassee, Florida. The televised finals feature one team from each of the 15 colleges and universities in the ACC Academic Consortium who compete for  $30,000 in prizes.

ACC InVenture campus qualifier runners up included Justin Diaz ’24, founder of EcoBamboo and a student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and Brendan Murty ’24, Ryan Mussaw ’24 and Ian Storrs ’24, founders of Concurrent and students in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

The Syracuse University ACC InVenture Prize is supported by the Provost’s Office and is hosted by Syracuse University Libraries and the Blackstone LaunchPad.

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