FSU student-entrepreneurs compete at 2024 ACC InVenture Prize [Video]

Florida State University’s Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship and the FSU Innovation Hub hosted the eighth annual Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize competition March 27. Undergraduate students from 14 ACC universities competed in the televised Shark Tank-style competition.

Since its establishment in 2016, the ACC InVenture Prize has become the nation’s largest student innovation competition and has helped fund multiple student inventions and projects. Teams competed for $30,000 in prizes at the production studio at WFSU, pitching their creative projects in front of a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

The FSU team, Esperance Therapeutics, was led by Ava Polly and Zachary Asarnow, two juniors majoring in STEM entrepreneurship at the Jim Moran College.