Finding AI solutions to local business problems

Teams of Terry College Management Information Systems and FinTech Certificate students spent Sept. 18-19 at UGA’s Studio 225 in an immersive learning experience created and hosted by Truist.

Finance and MIS student Trey Wilson

Making the most of campus life

Finance and MIS junior Trey Wilson is a podcaster, a campus tour guide, president of the Black Business Student Association and is active in almost a dozen other student clubs. His goal is to make the most of his time at UGA. “It’s college,” he says. “Soak it all in, smile, and keep growing every day.”

Customers at Jittery Joes coffee to use purposeful payment - the payment app developed by UGA fintech students -

Payments with purpose

Purpose Payment, a payment company launched by a team of Terry FinTech students, is launching an app to help support community causes and save local merchants card processing fees.

Fridgely wins UGAs 2025 Summer Design Sprint. Design Sprint instructor Don Chambers presents a giant prize check to economics student Gavin Gillespie

Fridgely scores at UGA Summer Design Sprint

Fridgely — a fridge-mounted smart device designed by economics senior Gavin Gillespie to alert consumers before their perishables go bad — took home first prize at the University of Georgia’s 2025 Summer Design Sprint on Aug. 21.

Students and judges at the UGA Entrepreneurship 2025 Build/Test Accelerator Pitch Contest stand in front of the Truist pitch deck.

Senior Shield takes home the top prize at Build/Test Accelerator

Kareem Elfoulie, a recent mechanical engineering graduate from Georgia Tech, created a noninvasive wearable that alerts caregivers when their senior loved ones need incontinence garments changed. He presented his Senior Shield to judges at the June 18 pitch contest, and they were impressed with his strategy for getting the wearable sensor approved for Medicare reimbursement.