Peter Hogya, a computer science major in RIT’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, was honored with the Herbert W. Vanden Brul Student Entrepreneurial Award at last week’s Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Award Luncheon at Genesee Valley Club in Rochester.
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’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.
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 software system that helps people get vaccinated against COVID-19. Among these students was Peter Hogya, a fourth-year computer science major from Bayville, N.Y., who has been instrumental in this “need-of-the-hour” innovation involving the distribution of these vaccinations.